The north has a definite lack of investment but southerners have a higher price of living - YEP letters

As a southerner who has relocated to Pudsey, I am able to see from both sides the north/ south divide.

There is a definite lack of thought and investment in the North. In Ipswich, where I was born and lived for 65 years, we had much higher standards of living.

Having said that the cost of living was considerably higher - eating out and drinking was a lot more. I always tell my southern friends up here my fourth pint is a freebie!

I see now that even Covid is something that you are not equal on.

For example, testing in schools is going ahead in the south but not here. Also, Ipswich has escaped being put in tier 3, while detected cases have risen considerably, and yet Leeds is dropping but kept in tier 3.

Is the fact that Hancock has Suffolk links any connection? I might add I voted Conservative at last election and wouldn’t consider myself a left winger. If anything I would say right of centre.