The North is dead: time to move South?

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A new report from think tank Policy Exchange, suggesting a solution to the affordable housing crisis in England, has been welcomed by ministers. This report calls for the selling of over-priced council housing, and reinvestment in cheaper social housing in the area.

However, lurking within it are references to a report published back in 2008, which suggested that cities in the North were dead and those seeking a better quality of life ought to be packing their bags. So does the government's enthusiasm for the latest report resurrect the threat of mass migration south?

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