Leeds has been named the UK’s top performer in a new report highlighting the country’s most improved places to live and work.
PwCs newly-released annual Good Growth for Cities report saw Leeds come joint number one thanks to an unprecedented surge in the local tech sector.
The survey, which uses ten categories set by the public and businesses to measure economic performance, also suggests that cities in the north are now narrowing the gap with their southern counterparts.
According to the report, 70 per cent of digital technology investment in the UK last year was into regional clusters outside London, where tech businesses raised more than £4.6bn.
Leeds alone is now home to 23,734 digital jobs and has a tech sector growth potential of 92 per cent.
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