Can Britain's north-south brain drain be halted?

By Andrew Martin. Andrew Martin grew up in York, upped sticks to London and never moved back north. This week he swam against the tide of migration to the south-east, and went home. When I read the news this week about the migration of talented young people from "the regions" to London and the south-east, where four out of every five new private-sector jobs were created between 2010 and 2012, my first thought was: "That's scandalous." My second thought was: "That's exactly what I did."
I grew up in York. After university, I moved to London to study law, and I never moved back north. More...