The Guardian view on Britain’s regional divide: the north needs deeds, not words | Editorial

From museums to civil service jobs, the attitudes that could doom the powerhouse idea are on display. To signal real change, London must now get behind proper flood defences for the northNortherners like to think of themselves as down-to-earth sorts. Few go in for the invective of the Bradford balladeer, Justin Sullivan, who denounced a “land of gold and poison” 200 miles to the south. But events are conspiring to encourage such judgments. After the Conservative win last year, a nort