Government's grip of Covid-19 recovery will throttle villages and city centres alike | Richard Vize
Ministers have learned the wrong lessons from the coronavirus crisis - their ignorance of local needs will doom the economy
England's overcentralised state has already undermined the country's ability to respond to the spread of Covid-19. Now it looks set to undermine the economic recovery too.
As the country takes its first tentative steps towards getting back to work, all the key decisions are being taken by the same ministers who have overseen the disastrous response to the initial pandemic.
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