Don't let virus widen north-south divide - Labour

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Coronavirus: Downturn must not increase north-south divide, Labour warns

The UK economy shrank by 2.2% during the first three months of this year, according to official figures - the joint-largest quarterly fall since 1979.

In a pre-recorded speech for the Durham Miners' Gala, the annual labour movement and trade union celebration which takes place online on Saturday, Ms Rayner spoke of her fears that the government might use the downturn to justify a policy of"managed decline" for northern England. "The Tories talk a good game on this issue but their record of turning their backs on the North speaks for itself."In his summer statement this week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a temporary holiday on stamp duty on the first £500,000 of all property sales in England to reinvigorate the property market.

She added that the large rises in unemployment seen in former industrial areas of the North during the 1980s should not be allowed to happen again.

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