in africa, guinea bissau form the latest takeover on tuesday. the uk government wants to close the gap between rich and poor parts of the uk, called the levelling up strategy and includes raising levels of attainment and is of improving public transport and high speed broadband. you pot alex forsyth. beyond westminster, gedling is one of those places some might say has been overlooked. so, at this local allotment, the idea of growth in neglected parts of the country
loads of potential but things around our education, health and businesses, it needs the pump priming and we need power is likely to deliver some of that. home priming and we need power is likely to deliver some of that. priming and we need power is likely to deliver some of that. none of the investments to deliver some of that. none of the investments involved to deliver some of that. none of the investments involved new to deliver some of that. none of the investments involved new money, l to deliver some of that. none of the investments involved new money, it has all been earmarked by the treasury before. instead there is a strategy overseen by michael gove to try to direct where the investment will go, and it will take years to deliver. i will go, and it will take years to deliver. ., ~ will go, and it will take years to deliver. ., ,, ., , ., ., deliver. i don t think anyone would sa that deliver. i don t think anyone would say that these deliver. i don t think anyone
the gap between rich and poor areas of the country, as part of its so called levelling up agenda. the policy, which the prime minister has described as a defining mission, will take until 2030 to deliver, and aims to tackle regional inequalities and help overlooked communities. there are 12 missions or targets which include. increasing regional devolution with plans to create more mayors with london style powers, improving public transport to bring it up to london s standards. refocusing education spending on the most disadvantaged areas. and providing access to sg broadband to most households. and there will be increased public investment in research and development away from the south east. but there is no new money attached, and labour says there is little fresh thinking. here s our political correspondent damian grammaticas. we area we are a government committed to levelling up. it is we are a government committed to levelling un we are a government committed to levelling lip-
and grandkids. so that s why the economic capacity is the thing that i will be working with, my colleagues very much looking to the treasury over the coming months as the net zero, notjust net zero, sorry, the levelling up strategy comes forth. because without that, ultimately, without an economic strategy, we are not going to significantly improve things beyond what new labour did. so the economics is the key to this and the way we do that better is a whole mixture of the things that we all know works. it is infrastructure, which we have committed to, it is r&d spending and notjust putting it in cambridge, london and oxford, but bringing it to manchester and other parts of the country. it is skills, its infrastructure, all of these things are what we need to do to improve the economic capacity of the country. it s what they ve been trying to do in germany for the best part of 30 years and we need to frankly get a move on. thank you so much for joining us tonight. we note there that as
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