I assume they’ll run out of money for National Service and it will only go as far as Birmingham.

Worth highlighting Director Onward & likely #Tory candidate Sebastian Payne has been endorsing the national service policy today

Their credibility #levellingup , or his parties credibility on it day after Michael Gove stood back, sadly in tatters

yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/…

Monday’s YORKSHIRE Post: “ ‘Cuts to pay for Sunak’s National Service’ “. #TomorrowsPapersToday

So this weekend the Tories have said they'll extend the UK Shared Prosperity Fund for three years, specifically so they can say it'll be available to spend on the national service wheeze.

Analysis by The Northern Powerhouse Partnership has highlighted that todays announcement on national service would cost northern Metro Mayors & councils over six hundred million over initial 3 years of re-diverting money, £175m of that from combined authorities in #Yorkshire

🏭 Henri Murison: “The areas which voted to leave and promised they would be better, not worse off in funding terms, will have their monies sent to pay for a scheme which will do little or nothing to remove the huge disparities between North and South in this country.'

Next week: army to be moved “oop north” ©️James Hacker

The others were a lot shorter term in premise than the spf but there’s probably a few bob floating around in them that could probably be reallocated towards eg counting the moon

Too tired to get into a thread about the ukspf but tldr it has been plagued with problems and delays so I suppose this is the levelling up funds equivalent of HS2. Wonder if the other funds will be shut down and raided too

Love the way this manages to junk the two main messages of the last election - Brexit dividend and levelling up - in one go

I can’t

oh my god 😂

The suggestion govt would replace programmes to raise productivity & take people out of poverty #TeesValley or #Lancashire for govt funded gap year programme absolutely outrageous

The Northern Powerhouse Partnership work highlighted funding pots have already been cut v. previous EU structural funds

At The Northern Powerhouse Partnership we have always valued commitment Michael Gove had to #Devo

He continued work George Osborne; delivered trailblazer Greater Manchester Combined Authority then greater powers Liverpool City Region West Yorkshire Combined Authority South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority & concluded #NorthEast , #Lancs , #Hull #EastYorks & #Lincs deals

Despite my many misgivings about decisions made by the government, I have always found Huw Merriman MP to be a decent & straightforward person.

I wish him the best for life after his time in politics.

The UKs cities are too small, says Henri Murison at our event in Newcastle tonight. Too many of areas around cities are disconnected, which damages local people’s job prospects. Better infrastructure will expand our labour markets and boost economic growth…