Levelling up...

It only takes a brief promenade around Goole to realise that the “levelling up” promised by our political masters isn’t working yet. If we want to know why blighted northern towns like Goole are failing to get the investment they need, we may get some clues from a talk Rishi Sunak made last year to Tory leaders in Tumbridge Wells. He was filmed making this remark. “I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserved. We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that”…