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MPs to debate capital move
Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 07.01.03
A call to move Britain's capital from London to Liverpool is to be debated in the Commons.
Backers say it could heal the North-South divide by bringing jobs to Merseyside, while easing London's problems of high house prices and congestion.
Welsh nationalist MP Adam Price, who will lead the debate, said London could remain Britain's financial capital after the political capital moved. The City would stay intact but MPs, peers and civil servants would go to Liverpool.
Mr Price said: "Moving out of London would be the single greatest contribution to the regeneration of the regions that the Government could make. Property prices in London would become more realistic, the roads and railways a little less clogged.
"Liverpool has nine of the 20 most poor postcodes in the UK, so let's reverse life's lottery of location."
