It’s hard to reconcile Boris Johnson’s 2019 speech with Rishi Sunak’s budget, which has left the policy in tatters
- Andy Burnham is the mayor of Greater Manchester
It pains me to admit it, but when the Conservative party put “levelling up” at the heart of the 2019 election, I thought they had latched on to the most potent political theme of my lifetime.
Were the Tories truly about to put the north of England at the front of the queue for major strategic investment? If they were, I wouldn’t have been able, or wanted, to oppose it. After all, it’s what I’ve always campaigned for.
