The Manchester Evening News can reveal a fascinating snapshot of how the public here really feels about Boris Johnson’s biggest political priority: ‘levelling up’.
Exclusive polling from the political consultancy Public First reveals a sense of ‘wounded’ civic pride in a region that still holds its former industrial heritage, football teams and local markets dear, but where people are also more likely than elsewhere to feel their area has declined over the last decade, in large part thanks to rising neighbourhood crime and the state of our town centres.
It shows a public more open than elsewhere to devolution and especially to policies aimed at attracting green jobs, retraining and business investment outside of London, with people wanting
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