Levelling up won’t happen until the UK solves its drugs problem
There is a clear link between deprivation and drug misuse.
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Gain comprehensive insights into the UK government’s levelling-up policy with our collection of articles, offering in-depth analysis, critical evaluations, and discussions on its objectives, implementation, and potential impact on regional development and economic equality.
Michael Gove has shown courage in breaking the Brexit taboo
The Levelling Up Secretary has become the first Brexiteer to accept that their project is failing.
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MPs call for 90,000 more social homes every year and a new housing court
The Levelling Up Committee has said the government needs to step up its plans to protect renters and punish rogue…
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Michael Gove and the levelling up agenda have been hamstrung
The Treasury will reportedly oversee all of the Levelling Up Department’s capital spending.
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Why it’s time to scrap the apprenticeship minimum wage
Paying £4.81 per hour is exploitative and wrongly assumes all apprentices have families who can support them.
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Royal Academy of Engineering chief: “The industry has a diversity deficit”
Hayaatun Sillem on the need for inclusive product design, problems with the education system, and her unexpected route into engineering.
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Why Manchester needs more than trickle-down economics
New research on manufacturing in the region suggests growth doesn’t always translate into more jobs and better pay.
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How Brexit Britain lost a vital asset: space
So-called left behind towns prize more “places to meet” over jobs. In Middlesbrough, they’re opening public living rooms in abandoned…
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Libertarians hated it, but the sugar tax might just have worked
Researchers think it could have helped prevent obesity. Now there are calls to extend the levy and use it to…
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Where has the levelling-up fund money been distributed?
As the second tranche of successful bids are announced, we look at where investment has headed so far.
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Up north, Gove quotes Engels and criticises our broken economic model – but he’s stuck for solutions
At the annual Convention of the North, the Levelling Up Secretary was big on rhetoric but short on substance.
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Where next for levelling up?
Conservatives are fuming over “begging bowl” culture, while Labour waits in the wings with its own version of the plan.
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Levelling-up fund is poor compensation for the ravages of austerity
The latest £2bn round of levelling-up funding is a drop in the ocean compared with the fall in local authority…
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“Levelling up” was always a farcical vanity project
It was the latest iteration of Boris Johnson's monument-building – funnelling money into headline-grabbing developments.
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The legislative battles to watch out for in 2023
UK policymakers and experts reveal the legislation and policy initiatives they have their eye on as parliament returns.
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Rishi Sunak faces a new Tory revolt over levelling up favouritism
As the south wins out over the north, the government can’t pretend the money exists to address regional inequalities.
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Dan Jarvis on levelling up: There is an institutional bias against the North of England
The former Mayor of South Yorkshire and Barnsley MP on levelling up and Labour’s electoral offer.
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The government’s concession on childcare shows how much the issue matters to voters
Britain has one of the most expensive childcare systems in the world, with a full-time nursery place costing an average…
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“The Tories have given up”: Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll on revitalising the north-east
One of Labour’s “last Corbynistas in power” believes further devolution and left-wing ideas could revolutionise regionalism in the UK.
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Tory MP tells Labour’s Sarah Owen to “shut up” in parliament
Paul Howell was angered by suggestions he should have mentioned his property portfolio during a debate on the economy.
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