Government hires wonk who thinks Northern cities should be abandoned

Remember when Policy Exchange – often cited as Cameron’s favourite think tank – argued that Northern Cities were failures, should be abandoned, and that the people of Liverpool and Bradford (for example) should move to Oxford and Cambridge?

The report, “Cities Unlimited”, was co-written by one Tim Leunig.

The government just hired him to work in the Department for Education as a policy adviser.

Good luck, Northern schools, you’ll need it…