No, I'm saying that didn't focus their efforts in the areas which needed it and made regional inequality worse rather than better. New Labour's economic policy focussed on creating jobs in relatively rich areas like London and the bigger regional cities and ignoring the rest of the country on the grounds that by investing in education in those poorer areas they'd be giving people a "fair" chance of getting out. That approach led to all but a couple of the people I was in Sixth Form with leaving for good after school, whilst the folks who didn't make it to Sixth Form, or who had family responsibilities and couldn't leave, were left behind with few prospects.
Statistics show the trend pretty clearly between 1997 and 2006. The beneficiaries of New Labour's economic policies were London, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Newcastle and the North London commuter belt. Outside of those cities, almost everywhere got poorer, particularly already deprived areas like County Durham/Teeside, East Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire, and the Welsh valleys.
edit: I would suspect that if you made a map showing all areas which got poorer between 1997 and 2006, you'd have an almost exact map of the areas which everyone was shocked voted for Brexit in 2016.
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