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)
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Boris Johnson flunked opportunity to clarify what levelling up means, MPs say
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee says the government has provided no overall strategy for the agenda or a vision for what a levelled-up UK might look like in the future
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MPs warn Boris Johnson that nobody knows what his flagship levelling up policy means
It s Boris Johnson s top policy but there s still confusion about what levelling up means
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Boris Johnson flagship levelling up policy is in danger of becoming an everything and nothing policy because nobody is sure what it means, MPs have warned.
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