Edwina probably won't be visiting Northern Towns

I see that Edwina Curry has joined the debate about Norhern Towns.

She has dismissed David Cameron's comments as

hunting votes beyond the Tory heartlands and is dangling the prospect of yet more government handouts as bait.

and reckons

the report is uttering only home truths, unpalatable though they may be to politicians of every hue.

and continues

If government efforts to help northern cities since the 1950s had succeeded, then there would be no gap in living standards, or employment, or educational achievement, or health - yet the gaps have persisted and in many cases widened.
You hope to live a long life? Try Hampshire, not Hull. You dream of a three-car household? That's Surrey, not Sunderland.
You seek energy, creativity, cutting-edge employment? Head for London, not Liverpool

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Expect here to become a persona non grata in Liverpool