What’s happened?
Last month the Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove ordered an “independent review” into what he called “serious allegations of corruption, wrongdoing and illegality” at Teesworks, the redevelopment project in northeast England that is the flagship of the government’s freeports plans. Teesworks, formerly home to Teesside’s now-defunct steel industry, is a 4,500-acre site stretching along the southern bank of the River Tees between Middlesbrough and the coastal town of Redcar, a few miles east. It is Europe’s largest brownfield development site and the UK’s biggest industrial zone. It is next to Redcar Bulk Terminal, a deep-sea port on
