Levelling Up: A Progress Report
| Author | Andy Pike,John Tomaney |
| Published date | 01 June 2021 |
| Date | 01 June 2021 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058211022935 |
22POLITICAL INSIGHT•JUNE 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson placed
‘levelling up’ at the heart of his
2019 General Election strategy,
although he never dened what it
meant. This slogan paid electoral dividends
as the Conservatives gained seats, especially
in the Midlands and North of England,
that had traditionally voted Labour. This
Levelling Up: A
Progress Report
Boris Johnson has promised to ‘level up’ England. But what does this
mean in practice? John Tomaney and Andy Pike look behind the
headlines and find a fragmented, disjointed strategy.
electoral outcome reected the political
realignment arising from the aftermath of
the 2008 nancial crisis and Brexit, as the
Conservatives capitalised on the sense that
some places had of being ‘left behind’ by
social, economic and cultural change.
Regional inequalities in the UK are
longstanding, deep and worsening by
international standards, and for decades
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