Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda Tony Bannan enjoys showing off the Rochdale factory of his firm PTG Holroyd, a 150-year-old manufacturer of high-precision machine tools, and describes it as an "Aladdin's Cave" of machinery and components.
The business has already found favour with the government and was named the 2018 Northern Powerhouse Export Champion. So when a busload of Whitehall mandarins was sent on a coach trip in the north to work out how to deliver Boris Johnson's ' Levelling up' agenda, Dr Bannan found them trooping in through his factory doors. To read more politics stories about the North of England, click here. Most people are still scratching their heads at what the PM's flagship domestic agenda
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