Could Manchester be a model for the UK to kickstart growth?

There is a buzz around Manchester that is difficult to truly understand unless you spend time there. It seems an entirely different ****** e to the general despondent economic vibe across much of the country.
Given this week's sluggish UK economic figures, does this city raise some questions about how to kickstart growth?
I was born and brought up in Manchester, wrote my first pieces of journalism about grand regeneration plans from the late 1990s and even I am shocked by how strategies put in place decades ago, and supported by