Manchester's success still isn't being felt in Oldham and Rochdale, says Northern Powerhouse leader
Brought up in Gatley and attending schools in Wythenshawe and Burnage, Lord Jim O'Neill rose to become one of the country's most feted economists and a Minister at the heart of government.
In the last two decades Manchester has gone from being a struggling post-industrial city with a declining population to the UK’s fastest-growing city, with a transformed economy and skyline. "And I often have said to people, sometimes you didn't know who was the council and who was the university and who was business, it was all a single determination to try and make Manchester different.
"But whatever the local political issues are, in terms of their councils, they've got to find a way of having the same oomph that has driven the Manchester gang for the past 20 years because that's what's done it." "But the likes of Oldham and Rochdale and Tameside and some others, they need to be more part of this. I admire what Andy Burnham is doing right now to try and do something to help some of these places be more part of it.
As part of efforts to spread Manchester's success more widely, plans to make north east Greater Manchester the ‘engine room’ of the region’s ‘next industrial revolution’ were discussed last week. Elsewhere in his interview with the Northern Agenda podcast, Lord O'Neill said he was "underwhelmed" by the topics Tory leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been focusing on in recent days.
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