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Title What does 'levelling up' actually mean? Experts tackle the key Tory strategy that most people don't understand Media name/outlet Manchester Evening News Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 10/04/22 Description Andy Westwood, Professor of Government Practice at the University of Manchester, said:“At its core, levelling up is really about recognising how unequal the UK is. That inequality exists between regions, but it also exists within regions too at the local level.”
The north is a particular focus of the agenda, having been hit hard by long-term economic change such as deindustrialisation and the move away from manufacturing. The region falls behind in everything from health and education to housing and transport, and that north-south divide has only widened thanks to recent events.
Professor Westwood said: “Austerity, Brexit and Covid have all come together to create a cumulative effect over the last 10 years. Whatever one thinks about each of those individual things, together they’ve made those inequalities grow.”URL https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/what-levelling-up-actually-mean-23642403 Persons Andrew Westwood
Keywords
- levelling up
- UK politics