What do Jake Berry and the Tory Northern Research Group want? The chair of the new Conservative backbench group makes clear that he is prepared to turn on Boris Johnson if he neglects the “levelling up” agenda. In 2010, on a quiet residential road in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, Gordon Brown was caught on mic calling a Labour supporter a “bigoted woman”. Gillian Duffy had approached the prime minister during the general election campaign and finished the conversation feeling satisfied with Brown’s answers. But repelled by her reference to eastern Europeans “flocking” to the UK, Brown later dismissed her concerns, unaware he’d left his microphone on. The following week, three miles down the road, Jake Berry turned the Rossendale and Darwen constituency Conservative for the first time in nearly two decades.