The north, south divide in the UK is alive and well. 2 Pieces of news yesterday proved that fact. Firstly a government think tank urged northerners to move to the south to be able to benefit from the prosperity southerners enjoy, and secondly A-level results showed that students in the south east are 50% more likely to get A grades that those in the north east. In the early days of new labour, the buzz word was ‘decentralisation’, a focus on empowering Newcastle, Manchester and Liverpool to ensure that their inhabitants enjoyed the same prosperity as their southern counterparts. Is this news a declaration that their efforts have failed?
Source: Abdelaziz (Aziz) Musa