Sir Stuart Bell, Middlebrough’s Labour MP, said: “From 1979 to 1981 Teesside lost 20,000 jobs in the chemical, steel and shipbuilding [industries].
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“Over many years, some of these were transferred to public sector jobs, and in our area something like 43% of the workforce is in the public services.”
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“You don’t go from the public sector to the private sector, you go from the public sector to the dole queue,” he said.
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