Is action man Gove up for a daring investment adventure?

The head of levelling up' should be on a mission to direct funds to struggling areas - but No 11 is a strong adversary

Michael Gove has become the British economy's Mr Fixit. While Rishi Sunak gives the appearance of someone who obsesses about little other than how and when to reduce the national debt, it is left to the MP for Surrey Heath to chart the government's next steps.

As the new boss of Whitehall's most clumsily renamed department - for levelling up", housing and communities (DLUHC) - it is Gove and not the chancellor who appears to have the job of joining the random dots on Boris Johnson's map to a brighter, more equal and more planet-friendly future.