Working class voters don’t yet hate the new policies, but it is easy to see how they will come to do so as a bad winter bites.
The Chancellor’s announcement about investment zones shows that, far from being dead, levelling up is alive and kicking in those places with the ambition to deliver.
The Government’s survival depends on a massive package of financial support for families.
Voters will simply not accept that the Conservative Party is starting from scratch yet again, with a programme for which it has no mandate.
In England and Wales the average house cost 3.5 times average earnings in 1997, but 9.1 times earnings last year. In London it’s about 14 times. Prices in England rose 9.4 per cent last year.
Tackling the cost-of-living crisis and delivering on Levelling Up will need the support of charities and community groups.
Households value pharmacies even more after the pandemic – and people want to see more banks after so many have closed.
Time and time again, voters bring up the same thing to me: the depressing state of their local high street.
Her u-turn on regional pay for the public sector shows how difficult it will be to take on the ‘Blob’ holding Britain back.
Levelling-up can only work if the Prime Minister takes it so seriously they’re prepared to see most policy areas – or at least a good number of them – through the prism of it.
With the global population exploding and relative power of the west declining, we should reduce our dependence on the kindness of strangers.
She explains why she changed her mind on Brexit, confirms she would change the Bank’s mandate, and says she would be happy to find a place for Sunak in her team.
I draw on Public First’s Conservative Leadership Policy Tracker which is being continuously updated for all the above.
Successive Conservative governments have delivered more powers and funding to raise up communities across the country. So too must the next.
We need a decentralised strategy focused on connecting points of strength, not concentrated in areas of underperformance.