


When levelling-up comes to town
In Great Yarmouth, cash alone couldn’t fend off populism
Trevor Wainwright pauses for a second, totting up the new building projects that dot Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk. “I mean, we’re talking about millions…probably 80, 85 million. Then we got the new bridge, that was 100 million.” Not bad for a seaside town with fewer than 70,000 inhabitants. However you slice it, the local councillor concludes, Yarmouth (as locals call it) astutely navigated the post-Brexit years, when successive governments had a rush of enthusiasm for getting cash to “left-behind” parts of the country.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Red herrings”

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