RARELY HAS a slogan been rewarded with its own government department. So it is with “levelling up”. Together with “get Brexit done”, the phrase dominated the Conservative Party’s rhetoric at the ...

It was a flagship policy on which the Conservative Party won the last general election. But a little over three years since the then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to “level up” Britain — a ...

Derelict for more than 15 years, the Moat Street Works, a former lock and key factory in Willenhall, is a graffiti-daubed microcosm of the government’s stalled pledge to “level up” the UK. Funding for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His predecessor was Simon Clarke, who was only in the role for 49 days, under former prime minister Liz Truss, from September to ...

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