Levelling-up the North

The Northern Policy Foundation was created after the 2019 General Election which saw many seats in the North of England vote Conservative and engage with One Nation centre-right policies for the first time in a generation. 

The day after that election, the Prime Minister set out the Government’s ambitions to repay voters trust in his One Nation government:

“We are going to unite and level up – bringing together the whole of this incredible United Kingdom...taking us forward unleashing the potential of the whole country delivering opportunity across the entire nation.”

Over the last hundred years a UK North-South divide on a number of measures has existed despite the interventions of many different governments. In the last 30 years that divide has increased. Levelling-up our country will be a significant challenge - especially so as we recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

Our research and work will focus on developing pragmatic and impactful policy interventions and analysis that will help the North to flourish and lives to be improved. We are not part of any political party and avoid falling into ideological traps.