Government may cut minimum wage in the north to boost south.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh, the "London Weighting" idea again. Not really a bad idea as the reality is that wages are so inflated in the South, especially in London, that the minimum wage their needs to be quite a bit higher than elsewhere. Otherwise we'll reach a point at which the economy of the North ends up suffering for the benefit of London (again...) or a situation in which the poor of London end up suffering in order to help the economy of the North.

I would be against any actual cuts in the minimum wage anywhere, but only out of principle.

Too early to tell whether this, or a different version of the idea, will actually happen though. Ideas like this have a habit of suddenly turning up, sometimes generating a little bit of debate, before vanishing again.
And reappearing a few years down the line. And so on and so forth.