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‘Politics exacts a very high price’: an interview with Michael Gove

Michael Gove on levelling up, Plan B and the price of politics

18 December 2021

9:00 AM

18 December 2021

9:00 AM

What is Boris Johnson’s government for? The answer, we’re often told, is ‘levelling up’. So far this has been a slogan without much meaning. More than two years on from Johnson’s election victory, it has been left to Michael Gove, as the new Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to define the concept.

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