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Ian McMillan says north of England is a ventriloquist’s dummy voiced by the south

The north of England has been prominent in news bulletins all year, from the Tory demolition of Labour’s “red wall” to the wrangling over HS2 and the flooding in the Calder valley.

Why then, the Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan has asked, are there no newsreaders with northern English accents?

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from Top stories | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2UV3FDs
17 Feb 2020
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