Labour's report on how to rebalance economic growth outside London calls for re-empowering big cities and county regions
"A really big package of devolution to the cities and county regions of England" is the key to a balanced economic recovery in which prosperity is shared, and fractures are healed, Lord Adonis said on Tuesday before the launch in Leeds of Labour's review into economic growth in the UK.
Under his devolution package big cities and new combined local authorities would be given "serious responsibility for planning and delivering infrastructure, including planning transport, housing and training.
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