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    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      Conservative Party UK
      Pressure grows on candidates for No 10 to commit to ‘levelling up’

      Co-author of Tory’s 2019 manifesto joins former ministers in urging Sunak and Truss to stick with policy

    • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
      Deadline for applications to UK’s flagship levelling-up fund postponed

      Month after submission portal was meant to open, local authorities still unable to submit bids for cash

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK minister describes Birmingham and Blackpool as ‘godawful’

      Heather Wheeler apologises for remark made on same day Johnson gave speech in Blackpool

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      UK ‘gambling’ with financing of its flagship levelling up fund, MPs warn

      Public accounts committee says ministers ‘retrofitted’ criteria for winning bids to £4.8bn scheme to cut regional inequalities

    • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
      UK business & economy
      Green investment could help UK levelling-up, says think-tank

      Increasing efforts on net zero capabilities would address regional economic disparities

    • Friday, 8 April, 2022
      UK fails to meet pledge on post-Brexit regional funding

      English regions face shortfall of £80mn a year as EU structural funds are replaced by British successor scheme

    • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
      News in-depthUK business & economy
      Birmingham looks for £1bn boost from hosting Commonwealth Games

      West Midlands city plans to use the event to highlight its post-industrial transformation

    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK focuses on green tech as it seeks to revive shipbuilding sector

      Government commits over £200mn to fund research and development in how to cut emissions in shipping

    • Monday, 14 March, 2022
      News in-depthUK business & economy
      Cornish towns fear losing out from post-Brexit regional funding scheme

      Local officials predict UK programme designed to replace EU financing will result in less money for development projects

    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      UK government spending
      Levelling-up blueprint devolves Whitehall powers to regions

      Long-awaited 400-page white paper sets out policies for aiding UK’s ‘left-behind’ areas but with no new funding

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      UK business & economy
      Boris Johnson accused of manifesto ‘breach’ over EU regional funding

      Devolved nations and English regions say government not matching billions in development finance

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      While we wait for levelling up Premium content

      Some ideas for addressing regional inequality

    • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
      Martin Wolf
      Lessons in ‘levelling up’ from the Basque country

      When it comes to regeneration, the success of this old industrial region is worth examining

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      Labour Party UK
      Nandy to face Gove on ‘levelling up’ after Labour front bench shake-up

      Flagship Tory policy seen as key issue for opposition as Lammy promoted and Cooper returns to shadow cabinet

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      FT CollectionsUK Budget autumn 2021: essential reading
      Government winners and losers in the UK budget

      Real-terms spending increases benefit some departments at the expense of others

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Budget: £1.7bn committed to small-scale ‘levelling up’ projects

      First 106 successful bids announced in push to tackle regional inequality

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Rosy forecasts give Sunak platform to show his tax-cutting mission

      Chancellor also had headroom to please ‘red wall’ MPs with spending commitments

    • Monday, 9 August, 2021
      High Speed Two Ltd
      Tory MPs join Labour mayors in bid to save HS2 eastern route

      Red wall Conservatives fear PM will be breaking his pledge to ‘level up’ if route is axed

    • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Adult skills and training vital to UK ‘levelling up’, says study

      Think-tank shows disparity in qualifications, health and access to finance across regions

    • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
      Liverpool
      Liverpool loses World Heritage status over redevelopment concerns

      Decision by Unesco committee condemned by local leaders who insist growth and conservation can work together

    • Sunday, 16 May, 2021
      UK manufacturing
      Rochdale hopes machine centre will manufacture revival in fortunes

      England’s 20th most deprived town looks to build on its heritage, hailing plan for institute as unique opportunity

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      Confusion over UK ‘levelling-up’ plan prompts Boris Johnson to hire new adviser

      Tories have pledged to tackle regional inequality but critics say policy lacks clarity

    • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
      Bank of England
      BoE plans to reshape Leeds hub in levelling-up move

      Cash centre to shut but operations and ‘substantial’ number of staff to move north

    • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Banking on the regions after Covid

      What Goldman’s new Birmingham office says about levelling up

    • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
      UK business & economy
      Goldman Sachs to open Birmingham office in tech push

      US investment bank will create hundreds of jobs in largest UK base outside London

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