Pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. Hello and welcome. At the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. The government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long Standing Underinvestment in the regions. And now we have the policy, a Bill Published Today by the Levelling Up Secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. This white paper lays out a long Term Economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. It shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. It guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. In research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. It gives local communities the
Pippa crerar and daily mail columnist sarah vine. Hello and welcome. At the 2019 election, borisjohnson captured a slew of northern constituencies in england with the promise to level up the country. The government said it would rebalance the economy, share the prosperity of london, to address long Standing Underinvestment in the regions. And now we have the policy, a Bill Published Today by the Levelling Up Secretary michael gove which, finally, spells out how they aim to achieve it. This white paper lays out a long Term Economic and plan to make opportunity more equal. It shifts power and opportunity towards the north end midlands, scotland, wales and Northern Ireland. It guarantees increase investment in overlooked and undervalued communities. In research and development, in education and skills, and transport and broadband, in urban parks and decent homes, and grassroots ports and local culture and in fighting crime and tackling anti social behavior. It gives local communities the
think that they will be a good match in terms of thrashing this out. i hope all sides recognise there are very serious structural inequalities that exist in our country economic and social. which metric you measure them by. and if they are genuine about wanting to achieve they have to work together to do that. some on the labour side to work together to do that. some on the labour side who to work together to do that. some on the labour side who have to work together to do that. some on the labour side who have welcomed l the labour side who have welcomed the labour side who have welcomed the governments plans. tracy brabin the labour mayor of west yorkshuire said there was a lot to be pleased about. but like others expressed concerns about the funding. jim o neill, vice chairman of the northern powerhouse partnership said as a framework and as means to help the government measure its performance it was quite impressive . but lisa nandy said the treasury has written off more