Well amazeballs it looks like GO is heading home with no prospect of a new Chinese route BUT lots OF promise re new houses, lots of them !
Did anyone seriously expect that he would? In the scheme of things, and in voter's minds, housing falls way up the list of priorities, and these junkets are as much a political exercise as a business one.
His "Northern Powerhouse" is as likely to get positive government support the comparable "Midlands Powerhouse" that the local authorities around the West Midlands is.
We're on our own outside of the "favoured Southeast" - in fact, not even the whole southeast, as I'm sure people living in areas of Kent and Essex may well agree.