Decent jobs, wages and opportunities are becoming increasingly unattainable across the region according to the State Of The North 2020 annual report from the Institute of Public Policy North (IPPR North). The authors say the UK entered a global pandemic with deep, growing divides between and within regions caused by decades of centralisation and 10 years of austerity. And the Covid-19 pandemic makes the challenge of reducing regional inequalities even greater and more urgent than before, the report adds. Director of IPPR North Sarah Longlands said successive governments of all colours have failed the North in the past. But we are totally committed to levelling up opportunities across the whole of the UK as we build back better.

Source: Daily Mirror December 07, 2020 00:02 UTC