Levelling up was one of the government’s big promises when it was elected in 2019. The recent announcement significantly curtailing investment in the North’s railway infrastructure was widely seen as a betrayal of that promise, and exposed England’s deep-rooted north-south divide.

The divide isn’t all one sided, though - the delivery of new homes is another area where the government is in trouble, although in this instance it is voters in the South who are complaining the loudest.