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Shadow Levelling Up secretary and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy said it spells a transfer of wealth from the North and Midlands to London. “The tax cut for the wealthiest costs £2.3bn this year. That’s more than the entire Levelling Up Fund given out so far,” she tweeted. Northern Powerhouse Rail and a number of Safer Road Schemes in Greater Manchester are on a list of infrastructure projects listed in the government’s Growth Plan that could begin by the end of 2023.
Andy Burnham says leaders are ‘open-minded’ but there are concerns the policy has potential to ‘displace’ investment. Dr Gordon Fletcher, of Salford University’s Business School, says hopes of continuing to develop high-tech sectors here 'could be at risk of being displaced to cheaper locations across the Pennines, or down the M6'.
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