Some Priorities for the ‘Levelling up’ agenda

Bailey, David and Tomlinson, Phil (2021) Some Priorities for the ‘Levelling up’ agenda. Birmingham City University, Centre for Brexit Studies Blog.

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Since the 2019 General Election, ‘levelling up’ has been a consistent theme employed by government minsters and MPs, keen to emphasise a new commitment to ‘level up’ and boost the prosperity of so-called ‘left behind’ places. Such talk plays well with the government’s new supporters in the ‘Red Wall’ constituencies won over in 2019. Yet, while the government has recently appointed a ‘Levelling up’ advisor – Neil O’Brien MP – and has promised a White Paper (due in the next few weeks), so far, there is no clear ‘levelling up’ policy agenda. Moreover, the Conservatives’ much vaunted ‘industrial strategy’ – which emphasised new ‘local industrial strategies’ – seems to have been quietly ditched.

Item Type:	Other
Dates:	Date Event 18 October 2021 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Centre for Brexit Studies, CBS, Brexit, BCU, EU, European Union, UK, Birmingham City University, UK Government, UK politics
Subjects:	CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-03 - politics > CAH15-03-01 - politics
Divisions:	Research, Innovation, Enterprise > Centre for Brexit Studies
Depositing User:	Alex De Ruyter
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2022 10:29
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2022 10:29
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12766

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