The Centralised System of London Civil Service

I get that there's always an argument about precisely where the money goes and how you measure a sense of fairness. Andy Street, your colleague, the conservative man of the West Midlands, has said this afternoon that in his view, the whole way of having different areas competing against each other to get hold of money is broken. The centralised system of London civil servants making local decisions is flawed. How can they possibly know better than people locally, that that's a good idea? Look, I think the truth is that you've got to run a country somehow, right? Not everything can be decided from the local town hall or even the local town. But in the end, we are a