The CBI will today tell ministers that levelling up cannot be left to the free market, with regions suffering from decades of a “benign neglect” that has left the country with a “branch-line economy” where too many companies are centred on London and the south-east.
Speaking in Port of Tyne at the start of the business group’s three-day annual conference, the CBI director general, Tony Danker, will argue the UK now has a “shot at redemption” if the high-quality jobs needed to move the economy
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