The Briefing Room - Will the levelling up plans work?

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One of Boris Johnson’s key campaign promises in the run up to the last election was to level up the country. Now the government has published a white paper telling us how it intends to do that. So what are the plans, will they work and do they go far enough?

David Aaronovitch is joined by:

Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
Jennifer Williams, social affairs editor at the Manchester Evening News
Paul Swinney, director of policy and research at the think tank Centre for Cities
Tom Forth, founder The Data City

Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter
Studio manager: James Beard
Production co-ordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed
Editor: Richard Vadon

Published on Thursday, 10th February 2022.

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