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The prime minister promises to repair decades of regional damage. His government must redistribute wealth to close deadly inequalities A ndy Burnham’s call to abandon “ 40 years of neoliberalism ” rests partly on the damage that he says it has done to northern England. A new study – published in the Lancet this week – adds weight to his argument. It found that for adults aged 25 to 49, death rates in the north were 13% higher than in the south in 1981.

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