For all their faults, the last Conservative administration did at least have one core ambition: levelling up. The overarching idea was to bring the whole of the country in line with the most prosperous and successful parts, to foster ambition and give people the tools and opportunities to build their best lives.
Under Boris Johnson, the Levelling Up White Paper put forward proposals to raise standards across a variety of sectors, including education, public services, skills training, housing, living standards and so on.
It sounded great, but quickly turned out to be an almost impossible task, hamstrung by a combination of bureaucratic
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