Mindful of the common good, conservatives must recognise the need for inclusive post-pandemic growth. Since unemployment is as much an economic phenomenon that undermines economic growth and local development as a social malaise, capable of fuelling extremism and other malevolent behaviours stemming from disaffection with the public, ensuring that Britain’s poorer counties are not left behind by the government’s blueprint for financial rejuvenation must be a priority. Since the conservative ideology cherishes social cohesion and national unity, exacerbating the existing socioeconomic divisions in the UK is not only pernicious for the country’s territorial integrity, but also in contravention of the tenets, to which we expect the Tory government to subscribe.