Boris Johnson “flunked” his opportunity to define his Government’s flagship levelling up agenda which risks becoming an “everything and nothing policy”, MPs have said.
Levelling up was a term coined when Mr Johnson entered Downing Street and was heavily pushed during the 2019 election as a way of closing regional inequalities and “improving everyday life and life chances”.
But the phrase has since been used in relation to tackling a number of society’s ills including addressing racial inequalities in the context of the Black Lives Matter protests, when speaking about disability rights, and tackling anti-Semitism.
A Black Lives Matter protest (Aaron Chown/PA)