Manchester City Region: LEP not a ‘cure all’ says economist

THE Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) should not be seen as a cure-all for the issues the City Region is facing but as “one cog in a much bigger wheel”.

That’s according to Baron Frankal, one of Manchester’s leading economists, who was speaking at a roundtable discussion held by TheBusinessDesk.com in association with Santander Corporate Banking and the law firm Pannone.

Mr Frankal conceded that the LEPs, introduced by the coalition Government to replace regional dev... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...