We can only hope that the London School of Economics has no plans to open a northern outpost anytime soon.
Dr Neil Cummins, associate professor of economic history at the LSE, suggests the North/South divide is due to a brain drain that began more than 200 years ago. His theory is based on research into internal migration between 1837 and 2006 and a genealogical study of some 277,000 people.
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