For a balanced recovery, cities need more powers to drive growth

Alexandra Jones writes in Labour List on how the economic recovery has played out in London and other cities.

Press release published on 28 January 2014

At last the UK economy appears to be recovering from the deepest peacetime recession in the last 100 years. The Chancellor made much of this in last month’s Autumn Statement, announcing that there have been three private sector jobs created for every public sector job lost. But as the seventh edition of Cities Outlook shows, this recovery is not being felt everywhere.

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