Northern leaders to put culture at centre of region’s post-pandemic recovery

Report making case for culture as catalyst for levelling up wins cross-party backing

Think of “the north” and images that come to mind include Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North, the sculpture of Henry Moore and Manchester’s music scene.

But now a rare show of cross-party unity has called for all of the cultural icons of northern England to be a catalyst to rebuild the region and rebalance it with the rest of the UK.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/19/northern-leaders-to-put-culture-at-centre-of-regions-post-pandemic-recovery