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Seeing the global in the local

Thatcher opened a new infrastructural space during her reign. Osborne is attempting the same.

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Photo: Steve Hanson

To look at the way the regions are re-aligning, and how the Northern Powerhouse is part of that, is in some ways to be blinded. The suffocating lack of a voice we have been describing across our series is locally experienced, but globally produced. We have to look at the global picture.

The Deloitte blog recently explained why Manchester is the ‘land of opportunity’ for American investors. But what is immediately striking about the article in which they state that, by David O Leary, a corporate partner, who works with large corporations on their ‘tax structuring and rate management’, leads the North West M&A tax team, and works with clients ‘undertaking an IPO or considering an IPO exit’ is that it often reads like a puff piece for Creative Tourist.