The Tories are trying to sell “Investment Zones” - yet another “initiative” on top of the failed Enterprise Zones & Freeports - leading to lower planning & environmental standards & affecting workers’ rights. Merseyside should have nothing to do with them and say NO!

Peter Dowd MP asked:

“The National Audit Office, the Public Accounts Committee and the Centre for Cities have criticised the number of jobs created by enterprise zones compared with the initial Treasury estimates. Why on earth does the Secretary of State think this new iteration in the form of investment zones—with attacks, whether he says it or not, on environmental standards, planning and workers’ rights—will be any more productive than the other failed zone proposals?”