Jim O’Neill – or to give him his correct title, Lord O’Neill of Gatley in Manchester – is in full flow.
Any day, O’Neill is expecting the government’s Levelling Up White Paper. “It was due 15 months ago,” he growls. “It’s been delayed three times.”
It's a subject that has taken up a decade of his political life in one form or other. It is also the big policy test facing the British Conservative Party as it seeks to show its majority hold on politics can last for a generation.
While he waits, O'Neill can talk. He’s shaking his head and speaking in unmistakeable, gravelly Mancunian tones. For once, he is not relaying tales of his beloved Manchester United – he was a director of the famous Red Devils and tried to buy them – his team since boyhood.
What’s occupying him today is “levelling up”. O’Neill, 64, is the former Goldman Sachs chief economist, internationally well known as the promoter of the acronym BRICs, to describe the influence of the new economic powers of Brazil, Russia, India, China, who went on to become a Treasury minister under Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne. He’s concerned about another cause – one, like United, that is dear to his heart.
O’Neill grew up in Manchester. Nothing is a given, there. Clearly, he did phenomenally well, but he wants others to have the same life chances. And not just those growing up and living in Manchester, but across the entire, post-industrial North of England.
Currently, it’s thought to be held up pending an end to the government’s trauma over allegations of party-giving and rule-breaking. Ukraine is also increasingly dominating thoughts. So quite when the secretary of state responsible, Michael Gove, gets to reveal all remains soon, just not yet.
Which is a pity because the policy is of enormous significance. This was the promise after all, that got Boris Johnson elected, that swept him to power, demolishing Labour’s “Red Wall” of hitherto safe seats up North.
The powerhouse waits
Annoying as it is, O’Neill is used to waiting. “Look, the phrase is itself a derivative of something I helped champion, ‘northern powerhouse’. The fact it’s a derivative reflects the peculiarity of the ruling party. We’ve had three different leaders since we came up with northern powerhouse, and their stance on equality and levelling up varies in style, depending on how much they disliked their predecessor.”
I will never forget discovering that men in one district of Manchester had the same life expectancy as Russia
Jim O'Neill
The concept of northern powerhouse, tapping into all that dynamism and innovation that was lost with the decline in the North’s manufacturing and engineering base and providing a long overdue boost to regional communications and infrastructure, was pushed heavily by Osborne. Talking it up, bringing together national and local government to discuss and to try to solve the underlying weaknesses of this huge swath of the country in area and population became Osborne and O’Neill’s shtick.
But then Cameron fell from office and with him Osborne, and in came Theresa May. “With Theresa, it was ‘anything but northern powerhouse’ because she didn’t like George. With Boris, it’s a case of ‘we need to be doing stuff but we don’t like George Osborne either’ so therefore it’s called ‘levelling up’.”
The term, which has become a mantra for Johnson’s administration, has another attraction. “It’s very clever politics in an era of slightly lost capitalism. It’s the ruling Tory party stealing Labour’s clothes, about taking their hard-core policies to help those disadvantaged by capitalism. It’s clever.”
One issue he is looking to Gove’s paper to resolve is what precisely is meant by levelling up? While northern powerhouse was easily understood and clearly defined, this latest incarnation is wide. “It implies solving inequality, but inequality exists all over. If that’s what it means, the gap between the highest and lowest financially is big all over the country. There is poverty in Inner London. If someone says ‘Westminster City Council’ you immediately think of leafy squares and smart buildings, but their area includes estates that are not nice. Levelling up may be clever and palatable as a political slogan, but the detail of it is fraught with problems.”
Says O’Neill: “On one level let’s assume it should be about social mobility. OK, but I will never forget discovering that men in one district of Manchester had the same life expectancy as Russia. I was stunned, shocked. So, is levelling up about increasing male life expectancy? Is it fair to get elected on such a broad ticket?”
He does, though, have an idea of what it entails; what, if it was up to him, O’Neill would make it stand for. “What I think it covers is large parts of northern powerhouse and northern powerhouse-type initiatives.”
O’Neill laughs. “Boris even said ‘northern powerhouse’ at the beginning but he’s got to have a slogan that’s his, so he doesn’t say it any more.”
Johnson's reluctance
Crucial to delivery of levelling up, believes O’Neill, is greater involvement and increased powers for local politicians. It can’t be done from Westminster. This, though, creates a problem for Johnson. “He’s loath to come up with more mayors in big urban areas because he thinks they will support Labour.” O’Neill references the Mayor of Greater Manchester, hailed in some quarters as the ‘King of the North’. Johnson, he says, “doesn’t want any more Andy Burnham’s”.
It’s jam spreading to buy votes, too small and thin as to make a difference
Jim O'Neill
Johnson’s reluctance is not unique. “Labour, when they were in control, had the same approach. They didn’t want to see power slipping away from the centre.” O'Neill smiles. “If it was left to me if we believe in this agenda, as the government we must forget tribal politics and not have any view as to who should be mayor, but just hope we get rewarded as the national party if we do the right thing. It’s ridiculous, how much of all this gets lost in tribal politics.”
So, what else, apart from more mayors, would be in Jim O’Neill’s Levelling Up White Paper? He would concentrate on “adult skills and how their development should be devolved. How can someone in Westminster have the slightest idea as to what is required, what works, in somewhere in Lancashire for example? Why do we assume that somewhere in Lancashire is the same as somewhere in Essex? They’re not, they’re entirely different”.
O’Neill would take adult training away from Whitehall and give it to local authorities to manage.
Next, “we’ve had 12 years of academies. It’s clear they’re not dealing with the education challenge in non-London parts of the country. Again, we have to involve elected mayors in the implementation of education policy for their area”.
We need what he terms "smart opportunity areas" in order “to solve the vicious burden of different generations within the same family having no prospects, no belief, in getting a proper job”. That involves, “giving money to the mayor of somewhere like Manchester – which has five of the worst neighbourhoods in Britain, incidentally – and letting them spend it wisely, as they see fit. They know their patch, not someone in Whitehall.”
Grounds for optimism
At present, the government is making grants to towns all over, to brighten them up and make them more viable. “It’s jam spreading to buy votes, too small and thin as to make a difference, it’s not levelling up.” He would restrict major investment to the cities and largest conurbations.
The HS2 fast-speed railway is going ahead, albeit without the eastern leg to Leeds and Sheffield. It’s costing a fortune, more than £100 billion ($133.8bn). O’Neill’s verdict? “Getting someone to Manchester a bit quicker is not levelling up. Politicians love big projects, that’s what HS2 is all about.”
The money would be better spent on improving cross-regional rail, road and bus routes, on cutting down the time it takes to travel between cities across the North and their satellite towns.
Too much focus, he maintains, is on physical transport. “I believe strongly that digital, non-physical transport, is pivotal. Bringing modern technology to the North, and the skills that go with it, is so important. It’s more important than HS2.”
What lies at the heart of this, along with belief, is cash. “If the prime Minister and the chancellor of the exchequer are not agreed about the big picture, how can you implement it?” He says: “Michael Gove has got more personal power than other ministers but if the Treasury won’t give him the money, what can he do?”
The Northern Powerhouse Partnership, the organisation he set up with Osborne as chair, remains. In fact, he says proudly, “membership is growing. It’s about creating more public-private partnerships, it’s almost becoming a mini-CBI of the North, attracting businesses whose focus is on the North”.
A major development, he says, is “the shift in regional house prices”. For 40 years, property values outside London have lagged the capital, they increased in London quicker than anywhere else. Not now. “That’s shifting. It frees up somebody, it allows them freedom of choice. It begins to raise the idea of ‘actually, I don’t have to spend my whole life in London'.”
The brain drain starts to reverse. O’Neill admits he is typical. “I came to London because all my mates were down here, it’s what you did. House prices are the cause of it and the consequence of it because you had no freedom. Once you’d bought in London, you couldn’t move home, move away, because you couldn’t afford to get back.”
Another trend is that society is becoming more conscious of division, about objectives such as profits with purpose. This too, gives him grounds for optimism. “Fairness will not disappear with Boris Johnson.”
Levelling up, he feels, may occur, “despite government. The genie is out of the bottle”.
There are grounds for optimism.
He’s hopeful in another direction. He’s got to go. Manchester United are playing and he’s got a ticket. There’s a spring in his step as he leaves.
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- Took up a public relations role for Chancellor Rishi Sunak in April 2020
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
Results
5pm: Al Falah – Maiden (PA) Dh80,000 (Turf) 1,200m; Winner: Bshara, Richard Mullen (jockey), Salem Al Ketbi (trainer)
5.30pm: Wathba Stallions Cup – Handicap (PA) Dh70,000 (T) 1,400m; Winner: AF Musannef, Tadhg O’Shea, Ernst Oertel
6pm: Al Dhafra – Maiden (PA) Dh80,000 (T) 1,600m; Winner: AF Mualami, Antonio Fresu, Abubakar Daud
6.30pm: Al Khaleej Al Arabi – Handicap (PA) Dh80,000 (T) 1,600m; Winner: Hawafez, Adrie de Vries, Abubakar Daud
7pm: Al Mafraq – Handicap (PA) Dh80,000 (T) 1,600m; Winner: JAP Almahfuz, Royston Ffrench, Irfan Ellahi
7.30pm: Al Samha – Handicap (TB) Dh80,000 (T) 1,600m; Winner: Celestial Spheres, Patrick Cosgrave, Ismail Mohammed
Brief scores:
Toss: Australia, chose to bat
Australia: 272-9 (50 ov)
Khawaja 100, Handscomb 52; Bhuvneshwar 3-48
India: 237 (50 ov)
Rohit 56, Bhuvneshwar 46; Zampa 3-46
Player of the Match: Usman Khawaja (Australia)
Player of the Series: Usman Khawaja (Australia)
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Brief scores:
Toss: Rajputs, elected to field first
Sindhis 94-6 (10 ov)
Watson 42; Munaf 3-20
Rajputs 96-0 (4 ov)
Shahzad 74 not out
The details
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Director: Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West
Our take: 3/5
Results
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Winner: Jordan Sport, Adrie de Vries, Fawzi Nass
5.10pm: Nad Al Sheba Conditions $200,000 (Turf) 1,200m
Winner: Jungle Cat, William Buick, Charlie Appleby
5.45pm: Burj Nahaar Group 3 $200,000 (D) 1,600m
Winner: Kimbear, Patrick Dobbs, Doug Watson
6.20pm: Jebel Hatta Group 1 $300,000 (T) 1,800m
Winner: Blair House, James Doyle, Charlie Appleby
6.55pm: Al Maktoum Challenge Round-3 Group 1 $400,000 (D) 2,000m
Winner: North America, Richard Mullen, Satish Seemar
7.30pm: Dubai City of Gold Group 2 $250,000 (T) 2,410m
Winner: Hawkbill, William Buick, Charlie Appleby.
Director: Laxman Utekar
Cast: Vicky Kaushal, Akshaye Khanna, Diana Penty, Vineet Kumar Singh, Rashmika Mandanna
Rating: 1/5
Squads
Australia: Finch (c), Agar, Behrendorff, Carey, Coulter-Nile, Lynn, McDermott, Maxwell, Short, Stanlake, Stoinis, Tye, Zampa
India: Kohli (c), Khaleel, Bumrah, Chahal, Dhawan, Shreyas, Karthik, Kuldeep, Bhuvneshwar, Pandey, Krunal, Pant, Rahul, Sundar, Umesh
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Directors: Avinash Arun, Prosit Roy
Stars: Jaideep Ahlawat, Ishwak Singh, Lc Sekhose, Merenla Imsong
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Day 2, Dubai Test: At a glance
Moment of the day Pakistan’s effort in the field had hints of shambles about it. The wheels were officially off when Wahab Riaz lost his run up and aborted the delivery four times in a row. He re-measured his run, jogged in for two practice goes. Then, when he was finally ready to go, he bailed out again. It was a total cringefest.
Stat of the day – 139.5 Yasir Shah has bowled 139.5 overs in three innings so far in this Test series. Judged by his returns, the workload has not withered him. He has 14 wickets so far, and became history’s first spinner to take five-wickets in an innings in five consecutive Tests. Not bad for someone whose fitness was in question before the series.
The verdict Stranger things have happened, but it is going to take something extraordinary for Pakistan to keep their undefeated record in Test series in the UAE in tact from this position. At least Shan Masood and Sami Aslam have made a positive start to the salvage effort.
The Good Liar
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen
Directed by: Bill Condon
Three out of five stars
Brief scores:
Scotland 371-5, 50 overs (C MacLeod 140 no, K Coetzer 58, G Munsey 55)
England 365 all out, 48.5 overs (J Bairstow 105, A Hales 52; M Watt 3-55)
Result: Scotland won by six runs
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