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Labour drops Conservatives’ levelling up agenda

Labour government looks set to devolve more decision making in areas including culture, while offering multi-year budgets rather than competitive bidding processes to local communities.

Patrick Jowett
4 min read

The Labour Party has removed the words ‘levelling up’ from the government department responsible for local authorities.
The department, now headed up by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner...

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