I remember learning about Regional Development Boards in economics lessons at school in the 1970s. They were revived in another form in 1988 by Maggie when she thought she might lose even more northern votes, boosted by Labour in 1998, ditched by Osborne in 2010. And here they come again, I’d wager, with shiny new Gove-esque packaging. This time rebranded as Levelling Up, more realistically, I’d say, Lip Service. By the way, MG’s report includes a list of the most important cities in the world since 7000BC; to show, I guess, how things might change. So, Hull could be the next Jericho…
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.