Blackpool typifies inequality says the cabinet – but it skates past the benefit cuts

While Conservative conference ponders poverty, the town's most deprived face a 1,000-a-year cut as universal credit is clipped

It is 14 years since the Conservatives last held their conference in Blackpool, but the resort has been on the lips of every cabinet member in Manchester this week.

Children born in Blackpool are no less gifted than those in Beaconsfield but their GCSE results, job prospects and university offers don't reflect that. That's wrong," said Michael Gove, the secretary of state for levelling up.