to be achieved until 2030. labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker reports. we are a government committed to levelling up. it is absolutely what levelling up is all about. what we re doing is levelling up. level up across the whole of the uk. ministers have talked about it a lot. i m here to talk about levelling up. michael gove will talk about it more today. levelling up was at the heart of the conservatives 2019 election campaign. plans to be outlined today include creating more regional mayors with london style powers in areas of england that want them, bringing public transport closer to london standards, giving the large majority of the country access to sg broadband, and eliminating illiteracy in primary school leavers. many of these ideas may sound familiar, and labour says it amounts to shuffling the deckchairs,
welcome to bbc news. the headlines at 9am: the government unveils details of one of its election pledges trying to reducing the gap between richer and poorer areas by levelling up the country. plans include improvements to public transport, broadband and education, along with more town and city mayors across england. what government will be judged by is our ability to deliver over the course of the next two years and then on to 2030, and that is why we are laying out the basis on which we can bejudged on the basis on which a future spending reviews can be judged as well. if you live in a neglected area, what do you want? is it more mayors,
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correspondent adam fleming. this levelling up plan is a really big dealfor the this levelling up plan is a really big deal for the government. this levelling up plan is a really big dealfor the government. it is big deal for the government. it is auoin to big deal for the government. it is going to be big deal for the government. it is going to be a big deal for the government. it 3 going to be a really big big deal for the government. it 1 going to be a really big document as well. lots of stuff for us to wade through. this is the government and the civil service getting themselves ready to deliver on this levelling up ready to deliver on this levelling up agenda, it is not the delivery itself, so the big thing we are going to get today is these 12 national emissions to close the gaps between regions. you could maybe call them targets. that is what they would have been called in the old days. there are a whole load of aspirations in areas like health, education, technology and tra