Chancellor announces on Marr review of “Green Book” Treasury process which some argue has diverted investment spending to London.. says it will look at that question. Also moving a fifth of staff to north England...
Chancellor pushed to clarify how “levelling up” defined, measured... he says we’ll be able to look at stats on income growth and infrastructure spend but “it’s about a feeling people have that where they happen to grow up determines their life” that’s how I’m going to measure it”
Chancellor says that “by June” there’s a range of “reasonably uncontroverisal” things that will enable UK to take stock of progress in UK-EU trade talks - that is mainly a reference to financial services equivalence, where UK ask for slower process does go beyond Canada FTA...
Chancellor published on why UK-US trade economic impact study published but not UK-EU. Replies “given complexity of that [ie UK-EU], we will seek a range of views so we can absorb that input and look at that...” Going to publish it? “we’re going to absorb it”
Chancellor *pressed*...
