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Jake Berry and Lloyds Bank have plans for the North
The Northern Research Group, sponsored by one of our biggest and most disreputable banks, has concluded that the investment needed to keep newly won seats Tory will of course line the pockets of money men many miles south, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg (left) and Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth Jake Berry arrive for a cabinet meeting

TORY MP Jake Berry leads the Northern Research Group, the Conservative MPs who claim to know what voters in former Labour seats in the north really want. It turns out Berry thinks they want a fresh dose of Thatcherism.

They want deregulation and they want businessmen taking over local government, in a plan that was put together with the help of a giant bank with a history of big public subsidies and squeezing the “little” people.

This February, Berry co-wrote a widely reported policy pamphlet published by the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies — it called for a Northern Big Bang. You wouldn’t think northern voters are clamouring for Thatcherism, with what that did to the north last time, but Berry thinks otherwise.

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