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Boris Johnson addresses the media from outside Number 10 before formally resigning as Prime Minister. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Voters care about opportunity not culture wars - Justine Greening

Members of the media photograph Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron (right) and Minister for Development in the Foreign Office Andrew Mitchell arriving in Downing Street. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Data is key to improving social mobility - Justine Greening

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Tories beginning to lose political initiative on levelling up - Justine Greening

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on the plans for net-zero commitments in the briefing room at 10 Downing Street. PIC: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak has turned climate change into a wedge issue - Justine Greening

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan talks to a student who has just received their GCSE results. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Young people need to realise that career paths aren’t linear - Justine Greening

Votes are counted at Selby Leisure Centre in Selby, North Yorkshire, in the Selby and Ainsty by-election. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The Tory Party no longer knows what it should stand for - Justine Greening

Jacob Rees-Mogg, holds a copy of the House of Commons Committee of Privileges report into whether former prime minister Boris Johnson misled Parliament over partygate. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

What brought Boris Johnson down wasn’t policy but his conduct - Justine Greening

'The answer the electorate gave Michael Howard was a resounding ‘no’. No, they were not thinking what the Conservative Party was thinking'.

Tories need to start respecting differences amongst voters - Justine Greening

'I know first-hand the difference higher education can make to your life'.

The current university funding system has stopped working - Justine Greening

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street, London, with his ministerial box before delivering his Budget at the Houses of Parliament. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Jeremy Hunt’s budget continued calming efforts on the markets - Justine Greening

'There was a reason why it was my Department of Education (DfE) that prioritised “levelling up” before others when we released our Social Mobility strategy in 2017, two years before the words “levelled up Britain” first issued forth from Boris Johnson’s mouth'. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

How the Tory Party is facing a demographic crisis - Justine Greening

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt (left) and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a community project visit to Accrington Market Hall in Lancashire. Mr Sunak has reiterated his commitment to levelling up as the Government announced £2 billion for more than 100 projects across the UK. Picture date: Thursday January 19, 2023.

Levelling up must be improved - here’s how: Justine Greening

A long term vision and plan to deliver a levelled up Britain still needs to be set out by the Sunak Government. PIC: Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images.

The electorate will judge this Government on levelling up - Justine Greening

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening writes in today’s Yorkshire Post “There’s nothing preordained about the future. It’s the choices that we make today that shape what happens tomorrow.” PIC: Daniel Leal-Olivas - WPA Pool / Getty Images

A-Level results gap shows desperate need to level up in Yorkshire - The YP says

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Photo by -/PRU/AFP via Getty Images

Political intransigence won’t work with the markets or voters - Justine Greening

Queen Elizabeth II. PIC: Tolga Akmen - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Meetings with Queen Elizabeth II were always a great occasion - Justine Greening

Justine Greening next to the phone box where she found out her A-Level results when she was 18.

Universities being more open has helped drive social mobility - Justine Greening

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The next Prime Minister's levelling-up plans are what matter - Justine Greening

Boris Johnson. Pic: Getty.

Wakefield by-election a test on who voters trust to level up - Justine Greening

Tim Davie has set out the BBC's levelling up plans

New BBC team to be based in Leeds as part of corporation's levelling up strategy

A new BBC team will be based in Leeds as part of the corporation’s levelling up strategy - which will also aim to have one-quarter of staff recruited from poorer backgrounds.

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AdobeStock image of students.

Universities can be a crucial building block for levelling up - Justine Greening

Ripon Cathedral will host a a service today as part of the National Day of Reflection to mark the second anniversary of the Covid lockdown. Photo: James Hardisty.

Covid reflections two years after lockdown – The Yorkshire Post says

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to deliver the Spring Statement as the cost of living crisis deepens.

Spring Statement: What Rishi Sunak should do – Bernard Ingham

Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the Richmond MP, is preparing to deliver the Spring Statement.

Spring Statement balancing act for Rishi Sunak – The Yorkshire Post says

This was Rishi Sunak discussing the cost of living crisis on the BBC's Sunday Morning politics programme ahead of the Spring Statement.

Why Rishi Sunak must halt this energy rip-off – Andrew Vine

Rishi Sunak is being urged to act over fuel duty in the Spring Statement.

Fuel crisis in rural areas; why Sunak must act – The Yorkshire Post says

Pressure is growing on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to act over the cost of living crisis in next week's Spring Statement.

Don’t punish low income families in Spring Statement – Justine Greening

A root-and-branch review of all school budgets needs to be carried out.

Levelling up must start with schools funding review – The Yorkshire Post says

Is HS2 good for the UK economy - or not?

North’s rail services betray region’s history – Yorkshire Post Letters

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's commitment to levelling up is today questioned by senior politicians.

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak is putting levelling up at risk, warns ex-minister

Lord Patrick McLoughlin is the new chair of Transport for the North.

These ex-ministers should be heeded on levelling up – The Yorkshire Post says

THIS WEEKEND’S interventions by Patrick McLoughlin and Justine Greening on transport and levelling take on added significance because of their past Cabinet experience in these roles.

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Whitehall pressures: partygate, Ukraine, Covid – it is this Government’s ability to deliver on a clear plan for improving the long-term futures of people across Yorkshire and beyond, including communities in places like my home town of Rotherham that ultimately means it gets a thumbs up or not from the electorate. PA

Why levelling up is now Rishi Sunak's biggest test - Justine Greening

Chancellor Rishi Sunak during a previous visit to Pickhill Church of England Primary School near Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Photo: Ian Lamming.

‘If levelling up isn’t about education, what is it for?’ – The YP says

Tumult over Boris Johnson's future leaves the Prime Minister just one approach - levelling up - if his premiership is to survive, writes former Cabinet minister Justine Greening.

Why Boris Johnson’s last hope is levelling up – Justine Greening

Alun Francis

'Regional inequalities amplified by young people leaving to go to university'

The Social Mobility Commission's deputy chairman, Alun Francis, who has called for a tailored approach for devolution deals as part of the Government's levelling up agenda. (Photo: The Social Mobility Commission)

Calls for devolution deals to be tailored to help solve decades-long inequalitie...

Boris Johnson is facing challenges on multiple fronts after his party's humiliating defeat in the North Shropshire by-election.

What Boris Johnson’s defeat in North Shropshire means – Justine Greening

The University of York has carried out the report. (Credit: Alex Bolland)

University of York report says social mobility stagnation must be reversed

Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Social mobility is essential to levelling up - The Yorkshire Post says

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

Yorkshire rail downgrade seems like a classic political fudge - Justine Greening

Prime Minister Boris Johnson interacts with school children during a visit to Westbury-On-Trym Church of England Academy in Bristol, prior to a regional cabinet meeting in the city yesterday.

Why education policy must be more ambitious if levelling up to work – Justine Gr...

This was Boris Johnson's new-look Cabinet meeting for the first time yesterday following Boris Johnson's extensive reshuffle - and pledge to put levelling up at the centre of his government's agenda.

How Boris Johnson’s Levelling Up Cabinet can deliver for all – Justine Greening

What will unitary status mean for North Yorkshire?

North Yorkshire does not need elected mayor – Yorkshire Post Letters

The Government has been warned that it faces the biggest education challenge in the post-war era to ensure that glaring inequalities in education across the nation are not being compounded in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo credit: JPIMedia

Education faces biggest inequalities in the post-war era, Northern leaders say

Pictured, two secondary school students collecting their exam results last year. More than 1.2m pupils will receive their A-level and GCSE grades “on what they have been taught,” after teachers in England have helped decide after exams were cancelled for the second successive year due to Covid-19.Photo credit: Getty Images

'Perfect storm' set for A Level and GCSE appeals, says Northern education leader

Rotherham born Justine Greening - the architect of the opportunity areas programme during her time in government - has made an impassioned plea to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ensure more powers are given to local communities to create more opportunities for young people. Submitted photo

Greening calls for government blueprint for education ahead of levelling up plan

England and Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford is campaigning to abolish child food poverty.

More MPs like Marcus Rashford and Gareth Southgate are needed – Yorkshire Post L...

Kim Leadbeater sitting in the seat previously used by her sister, the murdered MP Jo Cox, during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor /PA Wire

Kim Leadbeater's call for political reset after bitter by-election: The YP says

Justine Greening says growing up in Rotherham as a 'Red Wall Tory' helped her understand different points of view. Picture: Scott Merrylees

The new dividing line in UK politics - 'shouters' or 'fixers': Justine Greening

There should be far more Opportunity Areas to help raise school standards, writes Justine Greening.

Keir Starmer should lead ‘levelling up’ debate; why isn’t he? – Justine Greening

The Government is being urged to dream “bigger” and be “bolder” for the children of the North by education and business leaders in Yorkshire.

Government needs to dream "bigger" for Northern children, says education leaders

Justine Greening with Boris Johnson when they were Transport Secretary and Mayor of London respectively.

How my mother and I invented ‘levelling up’ in 2014: Justine Greening

Dan Jarvis stressed green jobs are an "integral part" of his ambition for a stronger, greener, fairer South Yorkshire. As Sheffield City Region mayor, he has declared a climate emergency in South Yorkshire and pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 at the latest. Photo credit: Getty Images.

'Confront it urgently' - Dan Jarvis calls on government for green revolution

Earlier this year Justine Greening, who was education secretary for two years under Theresa May, launched a 14-point framework for levelling up Britain.

Justine Greening calls for equal employment opportunities in levelling up agenda

Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, prior to his marriage to Princess Elizabeth in 1947, came to personify all that was great about the wartime generation.

Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards and belief in young people was ahead of its time – Ju...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson answers questions from pupils from Colham Manor primary school at a surprise Q&A session during a constituency visit as he is urged to make education integral to his 'levelling up' strategy.

How schools can help Britain build back better – Justine Greening

Stock photo of Leeds city centre. Photo: PA

Levelling up cannot just be about the North, peers are told

Justine Greening, the then International Development Secretary, during a tour of the Bourj Hammoud School, a mixed school teaching Lebanese and Syrian children in Beirut, Lebanon, to see how the UK's response and aid was helping the refugee crisis in 2016.

How refugee camp visit revealed education’s global importance – Justine Greening

Skills policy goes to the heart of tackling regional inequalities, argues Mr Danker.

CBI recovery plan can power the regions and skills – The Yorkshire Post says