Levelling up the North ‘must have a more surgical approach’

Ministers need to take a surgical neighbourhood-led approach to “levelling up” ambitions in order to tackle rampant post-Covid inequalities, senior business leaders have warned. The first report of the new Covid Recovery Commission, led by Tesco and Barratt chairman John Allan, also pressed for the Government to devolve more powers to local politicians and mayors to address already deprived areas now bearing a disproportionate brunt from the pandemic. Despite ministerial focus on &ld