That area I represented was also in a region with a proud heritage in traditional industries, including energy and steel, with a strong local identity, but which also felt distant from the centre of political power in the country, overlooked, ignored in favour of more populous, more prosperous regions and that felt increasingly that, at best forward progress had halted, and at worse, that we were going backwards as a region and perhaps as a country. Sound familiar at all?
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