Levelling Up Debate
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Emma Lewell-Buck
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Levelling Up
Emma Lewell-Buck Excerpts(2 years, 9 months ago)
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Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Rosie Winterton)
Order. We really cannot have long preambles: one question to the Secretary of State, please.
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields) (Lab)
In South Shields: freeport bid—rejected; levelling-up bid—rejected; towns fund bid—rejected; transport funding—rejected. We have suffered Tory cuts of nearly £200 million. Tinkering with our governance alone will not change a thing. The Secretary of State once praised policies that, in his own words, meant
“the happy south stamps over the cruel, dirty, toothless face of the northerner”.
Is he proud that he has managed to do exactly the same again today?
Michael Gove
I think that South Shields does deserve better. That is why we are going to work with the North of Tyne Mayor to ensure that across Tyneside, both north and south, we have the right structures and the right investment in place.