It is not just distressed northern industrial cities that need levelling up.
Rural areas are equally deprived, albeit in different ways - lack of jobs, lack of transport infrastructure. Cornwall and West Wales, for instance, are amongst the poorest in Europe. English coastal towns have some of the UKs worst health.
Tunbridge Wells may or may not be a worthy recipient of levelling up money. What surprises me is why it has taken the Tories 12 years to undo the Labour policy which separated the country into wealthy cities exploiting the poor, rural idylls upon which the sun always shined, and the obviously deserving ex coal mining, steel and manufacturing hubs.
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