Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove defended the government's record on levelling up when the figures were revealed The UK government has spent less than 10% of its £4.8bn fund for levelling up since ...

RARELY HAS a slogan been rewarded with its own government department. So it is with “levelling up”. Together with “get Brexit done”, the phrase dominated the Conservative Party’s rhetoric at the ...

The UK government has spent less than 10% of its £4.8bn fund for levelling up since its launch in 2020, according to official figures. The figures, obtained by the Labour Party, show £392m has been ...

Rising prices are making the government's plans to reduce regional inequalities more difficult and more important, Michael Gove, the cabinet minister for levelling up, has said. Levelling up is based ...

It was a flagship policy on which the Conservative Party won the last general election. But a little over three years since the then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to “level up” Britain — a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of living crisis will make Boris Johnson’s plans to tackle the UK’s regional inequalities much more ...

Michael Gove has said the government's "landmark" plan for levelling up the country will improve the lives of those outside London and the South East. Speaking in the Commons as the government's ...

Boris Johnson’s winning manifesto said it would ‘level up’ deprived parts of the UK by making the most of Brexit. Our writers drill down into the numbers to judge whether the party is making good on ...

The town of Camborne, in Cornwall, was awarded £24m in regeneration money last summer after the G7 summit was held in the county. The area has some of the highest levels of deprivation in England. Tom ...