Anger as 66% of Tory Levelling Up staff are based in LONDON - with just 3% in North East

Boris Johnson’s drive to help the country’s poorest areas was branded a joke as 66% of the staff are based in London.

The Levelling Up department is supposed to spread “opportunity and prosperity around the UK”.

But 2,261 out of its 3,436 jobs are based in the capital.