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.
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Tories accused by MPs of wasting billions on ‘levelling up’
The Public Affairs Committee has accused the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities of unfairly allocating funding.
Government will miss key levelling-up pledge by ‘around 192 years’
Researchers cautioned that even this projection may be overly optimistic.
Sunak’s top aide: Northeners should ‘accept lower wages’ to compete with South
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'.
Green activists and businesses hit out at Gove’s levelling up plan
The government only mentioned “the green industrial revolution and transition to net zero” second bottom on a list of 16 priorities.
‘Is this it?’: Lisa Nandy savages Gove’s levelling up plans
Nandy said places like Wigan and Preston were delivering "real change" despite the government, not because of it.
Michael Gove empty-chaired by GMB as he flogs ‘levelling up’ plan
Gove was forced to deny claims that the new 'levelling up' plans contain no new money or fresh ideas.
Levelling up: Tories doing ‘regeneration on the cheap’, Nandy says
Nandy said Gove's plan amounted to little more than "small pots of money dolled out from Whitehall".
Govt’s promise to level up UK ‘threatens the country’s poorest’, think tank warns
“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.