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By: Philip Cowley

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  • Level up: Boosting the regions might mean levelling down London

    Will London pay the cost of levelling up the UK regions?

    Except for updates on the coronavirus, no ministerial appearance these days is complete without mention of the government’s professed intention to “level up”.  This seems to mean a desire to do something — usually something to do with infrastructure spending — for the so-called “left-behind” places that voted Leave in 2016, and especially those “red [...]

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