Parky furious about lack of investment
SIR Michael Parkinson has criticised a lack of Government investment in towns across the North of England.
The chat show host is backing a £5 million fundraising campaign to renovate a theatre close to where he was born in Barnsley, and said visits to the area had made him “understand why people voted Brexit”.
Sir Michael, 82, said: “I get cross with these politicians who talk about the Northern Powerhouse.
“It might be true in Leeds, it might be true in Manchester, but it clearly isn’t where I went to recently.
“I began to fully understand too, for the first time, why people voted for Brexit.”