Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The genesis of the ‘levelling up’ agenda is often said to be the 2019 general election campaign, but in fact it dates back a little further.
Almost exactly two years ago, days after becoming Prime Minister, Boris Johnson gave his first speech on domestic policy at the Manchester Science and Industry Museum, one that demonstrated a significant change in direction for the government and for the Conservative Party, electorally and philosophically.
It was a speech, as I wrote at the time, that could almost entirely have been delivered by Andy Burnham - an ode to those places that had been economically forgotten by successive governments. READ MORE: Boris
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