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BORIS Johnson’s claim to want to “level up” the country “rings hollow” while he plans to end the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit, poverty campaigners say. The decision to phase out the benefits boost, which was introduced last year to help deal with the impact of the pandemic, has been widely criticised, with warnings it will push thousands more into poverty. Last week the Prime Minister delivered a speech on his “levelling up” agenda in which he claimed the Government would work hard to overturn “entrenched problems and deepened inequalities” resulting from Covid. It came as a new analysis published by the House of Commons Library revealed the UK has the highest poverty rate of any country in north-west Europe – and has done for almost all of the last 20 years. The full impact of the pandemic on poverty levels has yet to be seen, with statistics only covering up until March last year.