{"id":753997,"date":"2026-08-29T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753997\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:16:22","slug":"letter-eu-membership-could-grow-north-west-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753997\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: EU membership could grow North West economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  For too long British politics has overseen rising regional inequality and falling living standards, and with his promise of &#8216;growth in every postcode&#8217;, I think Andy Burnham is right to try and fix this.<\/p>\n<p>However, no other policy offers a surer way to grow the North West\u2019s economy than EU membership.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Analysis by Frontier Economics, published by Best for Britain, shows that membership could boost our region&#8217;s economy by at least \u00a3658 million each year.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing sees the most benefit &#8211; from automotive engineers in Halewood, to food processors in Trafford Park, EU membership could transform industry in the North West.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If Burnham is serious about regional growth and re-industrialisation, I believe he will find no better opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>Edward Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For too long British politics has overseen rising regional inequality and falling living standards, and with his promise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}