In some parts of North-East England, the public sector accounts for well over half the total number of jobs and it's a figure of which politicians will be mindful, knowing that they will have to cut public spending after the election. Correspondent Kevin Connolly reports from Morpeth in Northumberland where politicians are fearful of alienating a vast body of potential voters who live and work there.

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