Another report on under-investment in the north was published last week, this time from IPPR North, just in time for the 2023 Convention of the North, held in Manchester on 25 January.
The IPPR report had a nifty soundbite: if the North were a country, it would, with Greece, be propping up the OECD league table on economic investment.
It followed on from others focused more specifically on R&D investment published by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Nesta, and Transport for the North. The message in all these reports is the same: economic imbalance between north and south will continue as long as there is an investment imbalance.
