The 'Levelling Up' secretary, Michael Gove, is in the news as he unveils the long-awaited white paper for spreading wealth around the country.
However, Gove's commitment to that cause has come under fresh scrutiny after critics highlighted historical celebrations of his that northerners were "cruel, dirty, [and] toothless".
In a speech to the Cambridge Union, when Gove was in his final year at the University of Oxford and president-elect of its debating society, the now-Conservative MP said: "We are at last experiencing a new empire: an empire where the happy south stamps over the cruel, dirty, toothless face of the northerner.
