Angela Rayner set out plans to introduce a "power shift" in the North during a speech at the annual Convention of the North event on Friday.
The deputy prime minister called her English Devolution programme the "biggest power shift in a generation" as Northerners will "no longer be dictated from Whitehall".
Report by Kennedyl.
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