Blog: Levelling up – far too little, way too late

It was 13 December 2019 when Boris Johnson gave his first speech as prime minister outside Downing Street. We were promised ‘a people’s government’, and he crowed: “We are going to unite and level up” – one of the slogans that helped secure the PM’s victory.
But here we are, over two years later, and the government has only just published its Levelling Up white paper, touted as its strategy to reduce geographical inequalities in economic prosperity