GCSE results today exposed a “gaping” north-south divide - with pupils in London getting 45% more top grades than those in the North East, East Midlands or Yorkshire and the Humber.
Official figures show teenagers in the North West and West Midlands also lagged far behind those in London in the first exams since before Covid.
By comparison, the gap between pupils in the South East and London was much smaller, despite Tory pledges to ‘level-up’.
