'Get the Cheque Book Out': Levelling Up Special

Lord Jim O'Neill, Vice Chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, says the government's levelling up white paper is 'surprisingly good' and the most important piece of work on devolution since the Cameron and Osborne era. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Adrian Wooldridge says it's 'Renaissance thinking on regional policy.'But Jamie Driscoll, Labour Mayor of the North of Tyne tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Yuan Potts the government needs to 'get the cheque book out.' And rural issues are absent, according to Mark Tufnell of the Country Land & Business Association. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.