North 'hit hardest by Tory cuts,' John McDonnell tells Labour north-west conference
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by Marcus Barnett
NOWHERE has been hit harder by Tory cuts than the North, shadow chancellor John McDonnell told Labour activists at the weekend.
Speaking at the party’s north-west regional conference in Southport, Mr McDonnell is expected to say: “Our country has had a Conservative decade of decline inflicted on it.
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