Nissan has built and will continue to make its electric Leaf model in Sunderland for many years, with batteries supplied by a small facility on the site - Overdrive
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the heart of our communities. but what worries me is that when i visit schools nowadays and speak to heads, they say they haven t got people coming through and people are not willing to step up to headship, but particularly in the most challenging of circumstances. so i think thejob of government is to make it easier to support people to come forward, but actually to give them the help that they need while they re there. and that s why we said some of that money will raise we ll raise from taxing private school fees. we ll put that into supporting new heads. let s turn then to that phrase. you don t like the red wall . the reason it s talked about, even if the phrase is overused, is that sense that the bond between the labour party and voters in certain parts of the country, particularly your home patch, the north east, was broken by brexit. did you spend a lot of time thinking, why did people in sunderland, a place we were told could never vote for brexit because they were dependent
were dependent onjobs from the nissan factory, that was dependent on the single market. did you spend a long time afterwards thinking, why didn t they agree with me? i d spent a lot of time during the referendum campaign knocking on doors in sunderland, so the result didn t surprise me at all because time and again that sense of dissatisfaction about what was going on in the world, it went beyond our relationship with the european union. and part of it was around people feeling that they were being ignored by the government, that life was getting harder, that there was no prospect of anything changing, that, you know, thejobs that were there before, hard jobs, often jobs that left people, you know, pretty physically ill but were secure and had a decent level of pay, that they d gone. and there was so much more that needed to change. and obviously it came off the back of a lot of that kind of austerity agenda, particularly the post 2015. but in many ways they ve got worse still. you k
the north east, was broken by brexit. did you spend a lot of time thinking, why did people in sunderland, a place we were told could never vote for brexit because they were dependent on jobs from the nissan factory, that was dependent on the single market. did you spend a long time afterwards thinking, why didn t they agree with me? i d spent a lot of time during the referendum campaign knocking on doors in sunderland, so the result didn t surprise me at all because time and again that sense of dissatisfaction about what was going on in the world, it went beyond our relationship with the european union. and part of it was around people feeling that they were being ignored by the government, that life was getting harder, that there was no prospect of anything changing, that, you know, thejobs that were there before, hard jobs, often jobs that left people, you know, pretty physically ill but were secure and had a decent level of pay, that they d gone.