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As part of the programme's plans to visit 100 constituencies in 100 days before the election, business presenter Simon Jack is in Manchester Airport Terminal 2 to hear how lowering unemployment and a vision for a northern hub could affect voting.

Mike Emmerlich, chief executive of New Economy, a group which delivers policy, strategy and research for the councils of Greater Manchester, said: "What people care about, as somebody once famously said, is: 'the economy, stupid'"

"If we can communicate a vision of a place that's going places, that's putting in the transport investment ...I think people will respond to that and mainstream politics will play the role it's always played".