It's been a mixed couple of days for the Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, with the announcement of a new home at Brunswick for the Darlington Economic Campus and then a revealing new report from IPPR North on the funding gap.
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Here's what I made of my first meeting with the Chancellor and his plans for the campus. Catch the video here and watch out at 5.14 for a very welcome Zahawi surprise.
And talking of surprises, did we see what the new Brunswick building might look like yesterday? A post by Peter Gibson MP welcoming the announcement contained this image that even had the Treasury scratching their heads.
It shows an L-shaped six-storey building topped by what looks like glass-fronted executive rooms on the top right.
A Treasury spokesperson said they weren't sure where it came from (or what the fireworks meant....) so we'll have to wait and see whether this is the first look at the new site.
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