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Opportunity to show North's strengths

Two Shadow Ministers of State will be visiting Northumbria University today as part of an event aimed at facilitating communication between business and Opposition representatives.

The event will see the Shadow Minister for Business Alan Duncan MP and David Willets MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, in conversation with James Ramsbotham, Chief Executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce. Mr Duncan is Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and is also Shadow Minister for Tyneside.

The meeting will give the audience the opportunity to pose questions and hear about Mr Duncan’s plans for the area - including his concept of a ‘Tyneside test’, a means of ensuring all his policies would work in the interests of the area. Mr Duncan’s fundamental assumption is that “if it’s good for Tyneside then it will be good for the rest of the country too”.

The organisers are also hoping that the event will provide an opportunity for the audience of business people to remind the Opposition representatives of the real strengths of the North East.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .