`Go big or go home` to heal north-south divide, No 10 told
(The Guardian Business News)

Transport investment alone will not eliminate UK imbalance, former civil service chief tells Boris Johnson Boris Johnson´s government has been told to `go big or go home` if it is to truly `level up` the country and heal social division, with the former head of the civil service warning that transport investment alone will not eliminate the imbalances between London and the rest of the UK.Bob Kerslake, who ran the civil service from 2011 to 2014, issued the ultimatum as head of the UK2070 commission, an independent inquiry into the deep-rooted geographical inequalities within the UK. Continue reading...