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“It will provide tens of thousands of quality jobs and direct billions of pounds of investment to the region.”<\/p>\n
Mr Vickers, whose seat is an archetypal “Red Wall” constituency of the sort the Tories will be hoping to hang on to next time round, added: “It’s fantastic that the Government and investors recognise the amount of untapped potential Teesside has to offer.<\/p>\n
“On top of the relocation of Treasury jobs to Darlington, gone are the days where decision-makers and investments were focused solely in London and the South.”<\/p>\n
He stressed: “Successive Governments have banded about the idea of the ‘Northern Powerhouse’, but now we’re finally seeing this talk being put into action.<\/p>\n
“With a driven and ambitious mayor in Ben Houchen and an abundance of new Conservative MPs in the region fighting hard for jobs, opportunities and investment, the future for Teesside and the North East has never looked brighter.”<\/p>\n
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