The view that the Green Book’s formulae and assumptions are effectively rigged to favour London at the expense of, in particular, the north of England, has become so embedded that even the BBC reported it at the weekend as uncontested fact. A core claim of today’s populist “north south divide” narrative, to which Boris Johnson’s government, Corbynite Labour and the Guardian all subscribe, is that an “anti-northern bias” is not only embedded in the mindset of national government machinery in Whitehall – which is what subscribers to the narrative sometimes mean when they complain about “London” – but also written in to the Treasury’s fabled Green Book, its guidance for appraising projects and policies a government might back with public money.
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