THE CONVERSATION: Whitehall’s centralised system can’t deliver Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘level up’

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Period4 Feb 2022

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  • TitleWhitehall’s centralised system can’t deliver Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘level up’
    Media name/outletThe Conversation
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date4/02/22
    DescriptionThe government’s levelling up strategy to tackle regional inequality promises a “revolution in local democracy”. It seeks to do this largely through regional devolution – setting up more localised governments with their own mayors to give greater autonomy and power to the “left behind” regions.

    But the proposed solutions do not match the scale of the challenge set out in the document, and downplay the constitutional and economic revolution required to break away from the highly centralised Westminster model of government.
    URLhttps://theconversation.com/whitehalls-centralised-system-cant-deliver-boris-johnsons-promises-to-level-up-176300
    PersonsDavid Richards, Samuel Warner

Keywords

  • politics
  • levelling up