This is the week a Government that began with such promise finally lost its soul. Its great policy relaunch is a tragic mush, proof that it no longer really believes in anything, not even its own self-preservation. Conservative supporters, keen to move on from Partygate, were desperate for a comprehensive package of conservative ideas to enrich the North, relaunch Brexit and pave the way for an electoral resurgence. It was not to be. Michael Gove's levelling-up blueprint is a grotesque disappointment, a list of buzzwords and targets masquerading as strategy, its pseudo-intellectual veneer and cod history intended to camouflage the fact that it essentially advocates the very same nostrums that ultimately destroyed Labour. The Left, needless to say, is delighted at the strategy's ideological underpinnings. Jonathan Portes, a Left-wing economist, welcomed the paper as "remarkably like [Gordon Brown's] mid-2000s Public Service Agreement targets. Some are more or less directly recycled." Gove's paper even bears a striking resemblance to a plan proposed by the Labour-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research in 2004. For those of us who argued against the wasteful, " state knows best" nonsense of the Labour years, which needless to say failed or else we wouldn't be in… Read full this story
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