John Redwood MP

talks sense about the Redcar Corus steel plant which starts the 'mothballing' process today. For that read closure and the site being levelled and turned into housing and more out of town shopping sheds.

Good luck cleaning that site up: driving through it to get to South Gare it is like driving through some post-apocalyptic sci-fi set.

The Grex is a local and over thirty years has seen heavy industry leave Teesside and little come in to replace it. How to get economic basket cases like Teesside moving again will be one of the huge challenges facing the (Grex bets) incoming Conservative government.

Grex recommends they just nick the Lib Dem plans to raise the tax threshold, give everyone working in the black economy a one-off chance to register and go legit no questions asked and make it easier, much easier to run a business. John and I are signing - singing, not miming - off the same hymn sheet on this one.