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"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
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"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
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"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."
"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
"I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are."
"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."
"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."
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