Michael Gove name-checks Lionel Messi as he compares UK economy to team with 'star striker and defence full of holes'

'Even Messi can't do it alone': Gove compares UK economy to football team with 'star striker and defence full of holes'

2:46Michael Gove invoked Lionel Messi in a speech about levelling up in which he compared the UK economy to a football team with a"star striker and defence full of holes".

He said:"We all know we can't prosper so much as a state if we rely so much on one region, and within that region, on one city. Mr Gove also cited Margaret Thatcher's administration in the 1980s - a decade marked by the closure of coal mines and industrial strife in the North - as a model for elements of levelling up.transformation of the London docklands was his inspiration for the plan to narrow economic and social disparities between the North and South.

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