The areas that are poor have changed, but the truth hasn’t. https://twitter.com/lrb/status/1280060667697954821

Incidentally, this shows how facile is Gove’s assumption that moving central government decision-makers to the regions will increase the voice of the “left behind”: such decision-makers will live in the regional equivalents of Kensington.

If you don’t believe that decision-makers living in Kensington really understand the needs of (say) Newham, why should decision-makers in a pretty village in County Durham understand Teesside?

Not that moving decision-makers out of London is a bad thing in itself (though I’ll believe when I see it, and suspect it won’t be until Ministers and Parliament move out as well). But it’s no substitute for devolution of *power*, not just central government bureaucrats.