Leeds is not on the Red Wall. Unlike the five Labour ones, the three Conservative seats in its council area are so outlying that none of them even has the word in its name. Nor was any of them captured in 2017 or in 2019. Will the National Infrastructure Bank be going to any of those constituencies? It seems highly unlikely.
It was Consett that was emblematic of deindustrialisation in the 1980s, and it is Consett that is the largest town in the parliamentary constituency of North West Durham, which has come to be regarded as the archetypal Red Wall seat. Therefore, the National Infrastructure Bank should have come to Consett.
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