Whether you live in Newry or Newcastle, Belfast or Birmingham, County Down or County Durham, you deserve a chance to get on in life and to go as far as your aspiration and talent will take you. As the worst of the pandemic receded last year, the Government set about translating that levelling up ambition into reality.
New freeports, landmark investments into community projects across all parts of the United Kingdom, trailblazing regeneration projects in towns and cities were just the start. As the newly-appointed Levelling Up Secretary, it’s an agenda and a track record I couldn’t have been prouder to take forward.
While the media spotlight is firmly fixed on the leadership race right now, I believe whoever emerges victorious and gets to set the political weather will want to deliver on the central promise of levelling up: every part of the United Kingdom firing on all cylinders.
