Fresh calls have been made for a ‘mezzanine tier of government’ across the North to make major strategic decisions.
Writing in The MJ this week, director of think-tank IPPR North, Ed Cox, called for the creation of a Council for the North to drive industrial strategy, claiming the region’s cities were ‘too small to punch their weight in a global economy’.
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