Preston named as most improved city in UK

Labour-run council with localist economic policies tops Good Growth for Cities index

Preston, the Lancastrian city labelled as a poster child for "Corbynomics," has been named as the most rapidly improving urban area in the UK to live and work.

Research carried out by the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the thinktank Demos, which used a range of measures including employment, workers' pay, house prices, transport, the environment, work-life-balance and inequality to rank 42 UK cities, found that Preston had improved the most in its 2018 Good Growth for Cities index.