"Manchester is a city on the up, but not all of it" – Andrew Westwood

"We need to understand why places are poor, why people have fewer life choices, why their health is poorer... all major factors in place-based inequality," says Andrew Westwood, Vice Dean for Social Responsibility at the University of Manchester and commissioner on the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission. In this podcast, we discuss how England is the most unequal country in the OECD, about the impact of racial, class and place-based inequality, and the commission's radical ideas on how to bridge the gap between the richest and the poorest in Greater Manchester. The commission's report reads: "The vision we describe is not utopia and not a pipe dream. Everything we describe is already happening somewhere." Support our podcast and also get the magazine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.