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Regional Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed?

Amol Rajan and guests discuss the regional map of the country. There has been talk for decades about levelling up. Is now the time to do just that and by what means?

Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on how different areas of the country fared. There has been political talk - on both the left and the right - for decades  about the need to make the regional map of the UK, economically and socially, more equal.  Why has that been so difficult to achieve and  Is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift?     

Contributors: 
Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England
Dame Helena Morrissey,  City of London financier and campaigner
Paul Swinney, director of policy and research for the independent think-tank, Centre for Cities
Dr Joanie Willett,  senior lecturer in politics at Exeter University and co-director of the Institute of Cornish Studies
Professor Calvin Jones, deputy dean of Cardiff Business School

Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Editor: Rosamund Jones

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Five discussions on one theme: fairness. Amol Rajan and guests take on wealth, health, educational, regional and generational divides.

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