POLL OF THE DAY: Should the North of the country receive more funding as ONS declares ‘North-South divide’? – VOTE NOW

Blackpool has been announced as the city with the lowest average male life expectancy in the UK.

The Lancashire city overtook Glasgow to claim the top spot on the list, for the first time in 20 years.

Men born in the historically popular seaside resort will now live until just after their 73rd birthday on average.

This number is six years less than the average in the rest of England.

Those figures highlighted that wealth brings health and poverty kills, in what the Office for National Statistics (ONS) called “clear north-south divide”.

With that in mind, do you think that the North of the country should receive more funding? Have your say by voting in the poll above.