Paraphrasing (from watching Newsnight on iPlayer) for you.
The expert I was most interested in was Rain Newton-Smith, Director of Economics at the CBI, who was talking about
Building more connections between Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds, she was also taking about further south, in the Midlands, where there needs to be better connections between Nottingham and Leicester, as an example.
There should be a focus on transport infrastructure between some of the UK's biggest cities.
Martin Wolf from the FT was more general but making the same sort of points about spending, the failure to do more to spread growth and whether the geography of the economy will be more balanced by Brexit as a result of London's economy shrinking.
The general consensus was Northern Powerhouse was a start, there's still lots more to be done, and there's still Midlands Powerhouse to begin to think about. East West Rail is the sort of thing people might want to mention, but then remember it's linking Oxford and Cambridge and despite being an excellent example of (re)joining two UK cities, it falls down because it's seen as something for the south, for the wealthy, for an elite despite being anything but.
