6


IN VIEW By Ged Henderson


SENDING OUT AN SOS


The distress signal being beamed out from Blackpool’s iconic Tower could not have been clearer. The SOS highlighted the deep trouble the resort’s tourism industry is in.


 and the rest of Lancashire battled with the  


Now the county, like the rest of England, is in an even stricter, month-long, national lockdown, in a bid to halt the growing second wave of  of British Industry director General Carolyn  


Pubs, restaurants, non-essential shops and gyms are closed but schools, colleges  people have been told to stay at home, though construction sites and manufacturing 


   


However, Mike Cherry, chairman of the Blackpool-headquartered Federation of Small   


He wants that package to include a new set of grants worth at least £10,000 for those in the


Jake Berry


 restrictions will be eased and the tiered system 


It was that tiered system that led to Blackpool  was not alone in its concern over the economic 


supply chains of the hardest hit sectors, plus   


Announcing the lockdown Prime Minister Boris  


  former Northern Powerhouse minister Jake Berry, sent a hard-hitting letter to the Prime  


 late October also expressed concerns that the  after the Conservative’s breach of the ‘red wall’ in last year’s election was in danger of 


Among the MPs putting their names to it were Antony Higginbotham, who represents Burnley;   represents Blackpool North and Cleveleys and  


  the downgrading of the levelling-up agenda, and northern constituencies like ours will be 


 undermine the government’s hard-won mandate  economic case for the levelling-up agenda we have been elected to deliver has never been 


 Plan’, they argued that the North had seen


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82