North 'hit hardest by Tory cuts,' John McDonnell tells Labour north-west conference
by Marcus Barnett
NOWHERE has been hit harder by Tory cuts than the North, shadow chancellor John McDonnell told Labour activists at the weekend.
Speaking at the party’s north-west regional conference in Southport, Mr McDonnell is expected to say: “Our country has had a Conservative decade of decline inflicted on it.
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