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And earlier this year, former South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis said his patch had been shafted after his bid for more than £400m in bus service improvement funding did not get him a single penny from governmentĪcross Yorkshire, a shocking 30 per cent of children live in poverty - compared to just 21 per cent in the South. Transport is a perennial source of grief - Leeds remains, after many years and failed hopes, the largest western European city without a mass transit system, and the scrapping of HS2 eastern leg late last year did little for aspirations that public transport across Yorkshire might someday improve.
And the Barnsley East constituency is one of only eight in the whole of England with no provisions for A levels - meaning youngsters have to leave their local area to pursue their education. One area of Hull has more people in fuel poverty than anywhere else in the country, while from October in Barnsley you won't be able to catch a bus after 7pm as cuts to local services kick in. In County Durham - where Mr Johnson celebrated his 2019 election win - there are an estimated 3,000 more children living below the breadline than there were two years earlier.īoris Johnson celebrated his 2019 election win at Sedgefield Cricket Club (Image: PA)Īcross the Pennines in Lancashire, the red rose county has the three towns hit hardest by inflation as poorly-insulated housing and heavy car reliance means Burnley, Blackpool and Blackburn bear the brunt of soaring costs. In figures which shame any developed nation, child poverty rates in the North East have soared from from 26% in 2015 to 38% in 2021, despite falling in the South.
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The twin headwinds of the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis - plus the constant whirr of scandal surrounding the PM himself - have understandably dominated his government's attention and left little bandwidth for the complicated task of undoing decades of worsening inequality.īut as two recent reports have set out all too clearly, in many parts of the North the dramatic events of the last two years have actually set the cause back even further. READ MORE: Would Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss be a good Prime Minister?įast forward to July 2022 - three years almost exactly since the phrase 'levelling up' was coined - and the slogan used to sum up his plan to spread opportunity to left-behind parts of the country in the North and Midlands is starting to ring hollow. "And I want the people of the North East to know that we, in the Conservative Party, and I will repay your trust." "I know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us," Mr Johnson told Sedgefield Cricket Club. The Labour stronghold of Sedgefield was one of a swathe of 'red wall' seats - from Wakefield to Leigh and Bishop Auckland - where voters cast off decades of tradition to vote Conservative for the first time, ushering in an 80-seat majority for what seemed to be an invincible PM. It was a day of huge symbolism on December 14, 2019, when hours after starting his new term as Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in the County Durham constituency which for years had been the patch of Labour premier Tony Blair.