BBC

Levelling up: More than 90% of funding not yet spent

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove defended the government's record on levelling up when the figures were revealed The UK government has spent less than 10% of its £4.8bn fund for levelling up since ...
The Conversation

Five things we learned about levelling up from the Conservative party conference

Jack Newman is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, working on the LIPSIT project, which is funded by the ESRC. Every political party relies on slogans to sell their policies and justify ...
BBC

'Levelling up' phrase to be erased, says minister

The new Labour government is replacing the words "levelling up" with "local government" in the department's name and ministerial titles, minister Jim McMahon has said. Levelling up - a promise to ...
The Financial Times

Johnson under pressure to publish ‘levelling-up’ fund criteria

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boris Johnson is facing calls to publish the criteria by which £4.8bn of “levelling up” funds are being ...
The Conversation

What actually is ‘levelling up’? What we know about Boris Johnson’s agenda – and what we don’t

Jack Newman is a Research Fellow on the LIPSIT Project, which is funded by the ESRC. The promise to “level up and unite the country” has been a central message since the current UK government came to ...
BBC

Levelling Up: What is it and what does it mean for you?

Lots of people are talking about 'levelling up' right now - a plan to make life fairer for millions of people across the UK. It's something that has been talked about by politicians for a long time, ...
BBC

Levelling up: Cost of living could deepen inequality, says Gove

Rising prices are making the government's plans to reduce regional inequalities more difficult and more important, Michael Gove, the cabinet minister for levelling up, has said. Levelling up is based ...