The promise of the 2019 election is not about mending potholes in roads, better trains or hanging baskets, it about real opportunities and real people not ‘things’.

Levelling up can only be achieved by working collectively in local areas, writes the former education secretary and founder of the Social Mobility Pledge.

The Purpose Coalition will bring together the skills and the jobs needed to create a fairer, greener UK.

As former Secretary of State for International Development, I believe that levelling up, creating access to opportunities so that people can have a better life and fulfil their potential, isn’t just a domestic challenge it’s a global challenge alongside delivering on net zero. So Britain's leadership on meeting its 0.7% commitment matters.

Last week the government revealed its ten-point plan for its version of a green industrial revolution.

Greening said: ‘London has to have its own levelling up plan and it needs to be business led’

One in five people in the UK have nominally fallen down the social pecking order because they work in a lower-status job than their parents – with mothers, non-graduates and some black and minority ethnic groups more likely to find themselves “downwardly mobile”, according to a government advisory body.

We are currently testing out some new ideas on how to engage signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge campaign in 2021/22 and we want to hear your feedback on those ideas.