North-South economic and social divide still growing, according to new LSE research

North-South economic and social divide still growing, according to new LSE and University of Manchester research. The research put to the test a statement by Cities Minister Greg Clark in January 2015 that such was the revival of northern cities to date that the “picture of the north-south divide pulling apart was certainly true in the previous decade…in this decade it is changing. North and south are now pulling in the same direction, which is upwards.”