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#Levellingup

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Steven Heywood

"Even one Labour MP for a seat in the south of England urged the government to talk not only about the benefits of the developments to Oxford and Cambridge, but also to stress the benefits for the communities in between the two cities - noting acidly that Reeves, Sir Keir Starmer and all the previous five Conservative prime ministers went to Oxford University."

#UKPolitics
#LevellingUp
#ClimateEmergency

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedn66

BBC NewsRachel Reeves's growth plan comes under scrutiny from her own sideThe chancellor has made clear she wants to see economic growth, but the response from Labour MPs will be key in how its delivered.
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Steven Heywood

“It is clear that short-term, competitive funding is not the most effective way of investing in communities. The Conservatives spent too long requiring local authorities to bid for funding, didn’t get it out on time and changed the rules of the game throughout – making it very difficult for places to invest.”

#UKPolitics
#LevellingUp

theguardian.com/politics/2024/

The Guardian · Tories spent only a quarter of money allocated to levelling upBy Kiran Stacey
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jackLondon

Deputy Prime Minister Angela #Rayner has confirms t moving away from the using the words #LevellingUp

"No more gimmicks and slogans, but the hard yards of governing in the national interest,"

"The department I lead will be the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"

Angela taking the rubbish out.... actions not slogans please #labour

bbc.co.uk/news/live/czk0r339ev

BBC NewsUK politics live: Starmer holds cabinet meeting as Rayner ditches levelling up 'slogan'The PM tells mayors he will set up a "council for regions", as the deputy prime minister confirms she's removing "levelling up" from her job title.
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Steven Heywood

@ChrisMayLA6
Levelling Up was never going to work because it was predicated on the cooperation of two competing micromanagements: the dead hand of The Treasury which is reluctant to see capital expenditure and dead set against revenue expenditure, and the flibbertigibbet mind of Westminster which sees capital projects as things to be announced not delivered, sees no purpose in post project business as usual and changes purpose and direction eight times before breakfast.
#UKPolitics
#LevellingUp

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Evidence & analysis (should you need it) that Levelling Up was a harebrained scheme, badly managed & more about Tory declaratory politics than actual change in the ground.

Its got it all: incompetence, in-fighting between departments, corrosive bidding processes, unclear objectives, and corruption in its targeting...

So, in a strange way it is the Tory's flagship policy, just now how BoJo intended it...

#politics #levellingUp

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a

The Guardian · Britain’s levelling up agenda was stymied from the very startBy Kiran Stacey
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SubtleBlade ⚔️

'No compelling examples of what #LevellingUp has delivered, watchdog finds

#PublicAccountsCommittee report shows hardly any of 71 projects due to be completed this month are on track

Hillier said #Gove’s department appeared to have been “blinded by optimism” in funding projects that were “clearly anything but ‘shovel-ready’, at the expense of projects that could have made a real difference”.'
theguardian.com/politics/2024/
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryLies

The Guardian · No compelling examples of what levelling up has delivered, watchdog findsBy Josh Halliday
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Steven Heywood

'the MPs found that, on average, a bid for funds cost a local authority around £30,000 and that rule changes while bids were being assessed "wasted scarce public resources"'

Anyone who's spent any time putting together bid proposals to fund projects that would have been more efficiently delivered as properly funded business as usual will know that one.

#LevellingUp
#UKPolitics

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-685

BBC NewsOnly 10% of flagship levelling up funds spent, say MPsThe government's key policy to tackle inequality is being held up by "astonishing delays", a report says.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Its official: Levelling Up was just vacuous bullish*t...

The Public Accounts Committee finds little in the way of actual levelling up & lost of bureaucratic nonsense, delay & wasted effort.

Will anyone here be surprised... I doubt it!

#levellingup #Tories #inequality #politics
theguardian.com/politics/2024/

The Guardian · No compelling examples of what levelling up has delivered, watchdog findsBy Josh Halliday
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