A Tory MP tried to challenge Lisa Nandy on levelling up and it did not go well
Jonathan Gullis tried to call out Labour's record in Stoke-on-Trent, but Lisa Nandy was having none of it.
Jonathan Gullis tried to call out Labour's record in Stoke-on-Trent, but Lisa Nandy was having none of it.
The Public Affairs Committee has accused the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of unfairly allocating funding.
Researchers cautioned that even this projection may be overly optimistic.
The north is a "less desirable location for business" and "suffers from a less attractive skills mix than London", says the government who wants to 'level up'.
The government only mentioned “the green industrial revolution and transition to net zero” second bottom on a list of 16 priorities.
Nandy said places like Wigan and Preston were delivering "real change" despite the government, not because of it.
Gove was forced to deny claims that the new 'levelling up' plans contain no new money or fresh ideas.
Nandy said Gove's plan amounted to little more than "small pots of money dolled out from Whitehall".
“It is really important to remember in all this that, while high paid jobs are unevenly spread, low paid jobs, and indeed poverty, are not,” a top think tank has warned.
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