With the northern powerhouse revving up,the sexiest jobs in British politics will soon not involve a seat in the House of Commons but the best office in a town hallIt is one of the mighty ironies of our time that the most enthusiastic advocates of the loyal blue Tory chancellor can be found running Labour councils in the north of England’s reddest cities.
While Labour MPs have been busy rubbishing George Osborne’s conception of rebalancing the economy through the creation of a “northern powerhouse” as a “northern power cut” (when electrification projects on the northern railways were paused) or a northern poorhouse” (when the government failed to step in to save steelworks in Redcar and Scunthorpe), local Labour leaders have taken a much more pragmatic approach.
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Source: theguardian.com