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Northern discomfort: which way forward for the Labour Party
A fire is burning. It’s the angry flame of the injustice which we feel at the way the north has been treated, write IAN LAVERY MP and JON TRICKETT MP
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LAST year, the two of us, along with the then MP for Crewe and Nantwich, Laura Smith, drafted the report “Northern Discomfort” which — for a variety of reasons — went unpublished.
Today, in the wake of a disastrous general election and the gross inequalities being suffered by so many, we release the report with a brief update.
How can anyone who lives in the north feel?
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