This article considers the levelling‐up agenda in the UK, examining the Johnson government's original proposals to tackle regional and local inequality and its continuation under new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak following the short‐lived premiership of Liz Truss. The 2022 Levelling Up in the United...
The Minister for Levelling Up, Neil O’Brien MP, said he was inspired by the work of LEPs as he confirmed that they will shortly have funding certainty. Speaking in a Westminster Hall Debate about ‘The Status of Local Enterprise Partnerships’, on Wednesday (16 March), the Minister made ...
Government unveils levelling up plan The long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper was published yesterday by central Government. In it, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announced a dozen targets to make people happier and live longer in his effort to "level up" the country. The white paper includ...
Science minister suggests disagreements with Michael Gove over role of Oxford, Cambridge and London institutions
Writing in response to a parliamentary written question earlier this year, then levelling-up minister Dehenna Davison said that the department believed that the agenda would best be delivered “by working directly with mayoral combined authorities, local government, and devolved admi...
The team, which wasfirst reported byPolitico, has been formed to coordinate policies across government, and will work closely with Conservative MP Neil O’Brien, who has been named as an adviser on levelling up by the prime minister, Boris Johnson. ...
It will mean a new Minister and department being created and all the bureaucracy and costs. It will mean more money created which, intern, will lead to the least needy getting more with the real needy getting just crumbs. If you really want to ‘Level UP’ as you claim, let those on ...
Image:Lisa Nandy has been demoted from shadow levelling up secretary to minister for international development Image:Deputy leader Angela Rayner will take over Ms Nandy's old job It kicked off with the resignation of shadow environment secretary Jim McMahon, who said he was stepping down after fa...
Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, he said his government would "level up across Britain with higher wages, and a higher living wage, and higher productivity" saying it was time "we unleashed the productive power not just of London and the South East...
Kitty Ussher, chief economist at Demos “Homeworking is a regeneration tool, spreading the spending power of the people with the most disposable income. Let’s embrace it,” said Kitty Ussher, a former Treasury minister and chief economist at Demos. ...