Nathan Jebb has got more pressing things to think about than the government's latest white paper.
The 21-year-old became a dad on Christmas Day, with his partner Suzie-Lei Warde giving birth to a beautiful baby girl called Delilah.
As the couple get to grips with the stresses and strains of parent life, they may not be too focused on what Michael Gove has to say about Levelling Up - but the reality of what the government do or do not deliver will matter greatly to his family.
The long-awaited white paper landed last week, with the government promising to even things up in a country held back by a decade of austerity and rampant inequality.
In Birkenhead, where Nathan and his family are based, there are major challenges.
The Wirral town is one of the most deprived in the country.
In Bidston and St James and Rock Ferry it contains two of the nation's poorest council wards.
Out of 33,000 neighbourhoods in the country, the area around Corporation Road in North Birkenhead ranks the 19th most deprived.
Its unemployment levels and benefit claimant counts are above the national average.
It is places like Birkenhead that the government is promising to 'level up' - although major questions remain about how far these ideas - and the money needed to implement them - will go.
For Nathan it's simple - he wants the best future for his new daughter.
He said: "We just want Delilah to have the best start in life really.
“It’s all about her, we want her to have the opportunities to get on in life - that means good schools and job opportunities.
“If any of these decisions mean it creates a better life for Delilah then I’m all for it.”
“Every parent wants the best for their child and we want her to have access to the best opportunities and to be able to get on in life.”
The man promising to deliver that future and those opportunities for children like Delilah, Michael Gove, will be in Liverpool on Tuesday as the keynote speaker of the Convention of the North, which is being held at the city's Spine building in Paddington Village.
Mr Gove will be expected to talk more about the government's flagship plans for Levelling Up the country.
A plan that is supposed to be about creating a society where a baby born in Hull, Wallsend or Birkenhead has the same chances of a good life as one born in Surrey Heath, the affluent borough represented by Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove.
The ECHO has joined forces with other Reach PLC news titles from across the North and Midlands to tell Mr Gove to stick to his promises and really deliver for those babies across our regions.
At the moment England is as far away from this ideal as anyone could imagine. Children in left-behind parts of the country - like those shown on Tuesday's front pages in Reach titles across the North and Midlands - are far more likely to leave school lacking good qualifications, have a low-paying job, suffer ill health and ultimately die early.
Liverpool, where the Secretary of State will be tomorrow, has been at the sharp end of Conservative-led austerity for the past 12 years, and Mr Gove will face an uphill task to convince local people that things will get better under his party's leadership.
Liverpool Council is currently scrabbling to find a further £34m cuts - which come after more than £450m has been removed from its budget since 2010.
The Liverpool Walton constituency is the number one most deprived in the entire country.
And just next door in Knowsley, 30.3% of children live in income deprived households.
There is also a disparity in educational achievement.
According to data complied by the Office of National Statistics, in 2019-20 only 73.4% of students in Wirral had gained GCSEs in English and Maths by the time they turned 19.
This is far from the case in Michael Gove's constituency Surrey Heath where the figure is 81.4%.
The figure is even lower in Liverpool at 65.8%.
In Wirral nearly a quarter (24.4%) of children at reception are classed as being overweight.
In Liverpool the figure is 26.6%, contrasting with Mr Gove's Surrey Heath constituencies, where the figure was 17.4 % for the year 2019/20.
After a long build-up Mr Gove finally unveiled his vision last week for what levelling up might look like.
At its heart are 12 'missions' promising improvements in areas such as life expectancy, wellbeing, numbers of high-paid jobs, spending on research and development and even the rollout of 5G broadband.
This may sound promising on the face of it, but with no new money beyond what was set out in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's spending review last year, its ambitions are undermined - perhaps fatally - by a lack of cold, hard cash.
There are few areas where the concept of Levelling Up could be more important than in Merseyside - but many in the region will find it hard to believe that this government is the one that will actually make it happen for them.
Communities like Hull, Wallsend and Birkenhead need more than just good intentions if they are to thrive after decades of neglect by successive governments. As Mr Gove will hear when he meets Northern leaders in Liverpool on Tuesday, the stakes are far too high for half measures.
For the sake of the babies featured on our front pages tomorrow - and countless others like them - we can't afford to still be talking about the lost potential being squandered in our left-behind villages, towns and cities in ten years time.
Levelling up cannot be empty rhetoric or rebadged policies - the lives and the futures of babies like Delilah depend on it.
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