摘要: |
In October 2022, Michael Gove was appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Now I am sure he is a very nice person, but he does seem to have a track record of stabbing people in the back, promoting failed ideas and misleading the country by putting figures on the infamous Brexit bus that the UK Statistics Authority would describe as 'misleading.' So, my faith in his ability to achieve anything is limited. As I understand it, the Government is concerned about the disparity of wealth and opportunity between the north and the south of England. I am not sure what model of levelling up is being used. Is it a see-saw with the north going up and the south coming down? Or is the north rising up to match the wealth of the south. As someone who lives in the Midlands, I am bemused that we are either the fulcrum of the see-saw that stays roughly as we are or the soggy bit in the middle that doesn't rise at all like a failed attempt in the Great British Bake-Off. |