North East missing out on UK jobs boom, report suggests
The North East has lost out in the UK’s jobs miracle, getting just 1% of new posts created, a report suggests.
The study by the IPPR North think tank has called on the Government to do more to match its rhetoric on ‘levelling up’ areas of the country outside London.
The report found that almost half (47%) of the increase in jobs in the last decade was in London and the South East, despite being…