A think-tank has called for a redistribution of public investment from London to England’s poorer regions after latest figures showed a huge imbalance between levels of tax and public spending.
Office for National Statistics figures showed that London’s ‘surplus’ of tax raised over spending last year was £34bn while the largest deficit was the north-west at £21bn.
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