Levelling up means nothing unless regions get back real control John Harris
Sep 24, 2021
3 minutes
For a term that has been in circulation for more than two years, “levelling up” has not been the catchiest of political concepts. Journalists and politicians now tend to treat it as a self-explanatory part of the British vocabulary, but in my experience few people in the real world have any idea what it means. Neither, if they were to be honest, do large numbers of Conservative politicians.
But it will not go away. Boris Johnson’s reshuffle was sold as the formation of
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