Up north, Gove quotes Engels and criticises our broken economic model – but he’s stuck for solutions
At the annual Convention of the North, the Levelling Up Secretary was big on rhetoric but short on substance.
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Jonny Ball
Jonny Ball is a special projects writer at the New Statesman.
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