Manchester: Will the northern hub vision affect voting?

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".