It isn’t just the North that needs levelling-up. Marginalised areas of rural and coastal poverty in the East need investment too. To achieve this, the East will need to speak with one voice.

That’s why I was delighted to join the East Anglian Infrastructure Summit in Westminster yesterday – with a number of my parliamentary colleagues, council leaders and local business leaders there also.

To learn more, please follow this link to the excellent EDP coverage of the event.