With Liz Truss now working through what is probably the biggest and most ominous Number 10 in-tray in recent history, it remains to be seen if a new prime minister will mean a renewed impetus behind the “levelling up” programme.
For school leaders like me here in the North West that agenda needs to be a priority. For years the town my primary school serves, Warrington in Cheshire, has struggled with a drain of talented youngsters leaving for better prospects in other parts of the UK, with London and the South East at the top of their lists.
The problem is clear to see from our own straw poll carried out just before the pandemic. Of a small sample of children who left year 6 in 2008, more than two-thirds are now working in the South East in sectors like financial services.
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