The two most significant consequences of this election are that the United Kingdom is leaving the EU and the Tories are a national party in a way that they haven’t been for decades. Boris Johnson’s critics relish saying that these two things are incompatible, that there is no way that Brexit can be made to work for the whole country. ‘Workington Man’, they say, has no desire to see Britain become Singapore-on-Thames. But, as I say in the Christmas issue, this analysis misses the point: Boris Johnson and his team have a very different vision for Brexit than that.
There are three parts to Boris Johnson’s plan to deliver for those parts of the country that haven’t fully shared in the prosperity of the last thirty years. First, better infrastructure—both physical and digital. I understand that Sajid Javid has already got the Treasury revising its rules on capital projects to ensure that more gets built outside London and the South East.
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