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The group of 50 Conservative MPs, founded by a number of Conservatives who won so-called red wall seats from Labour at the 2019 General Election, is calling for an economic strategy focused on helping communities in the North rebuild after the pandemic.
A recent study by the Northern Health Science Alliance found the North has been hit harder than the rest of England during coronavirus, ‘exacerbating’ regional inequalities.
Jake Berry, MP for Rossendale and Darwen, said that the Prime Minister relies for his majority in Parliament on votes in the North and there is now an opportunity to encourage investment, jobs and industry there.
The group is calling for automatic grants to help deprived areas outside London, the formation of a northern growth board and - as part of a plan for better transport - the abolition of road tax and fuel duty, to be replaced with a system under which revenue raised would be kept in the North.
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