Read: The clock is ticking for Boris Johnson to deliver levelling up

The white paper launched by Michael Gove yesterday is an overdue but important document for Boris Johnson’s government, which has placed levelling up at the heart of its political narrative.

The reality is that, for all the prime minister’s challenges of partygate, for many first-time Conservative voters, in red wall Tory seats in particular, it is the level of ambition in this policy document and whether it can be effectively delivered on the ground that could deliver redemption for Johnson’s premiership.

Communities in many parts of the country who have felt left behind have had decades of promises of brighter futures from politicians in Whitehall but too often and in too many places they’ve not been matched with reality or comprehensive plans.

Read the full article by Rt Hon Justine Greening in The Times.