Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda The Northern Agenda has invited politicians from across the region to discuss the measures they think will make the biggest difference to the North and its people.
Lisa Nandy, the Wigan MP, shadow minister, and founder of the Centre for Towns, gives her view. The pandemic has reminded us of the silent majority – the carers, delivery drivers and volunteers - who are the backbone of Britain.
In towns across the country they were the battleground of the last election, their votes won by the promise to leave Brexit divisions behind and “level up” after decades of decline.
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