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Will the levelling up plans work?

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 8:30 p.m.

One of Boris Johnson\u2019s key campaign promises in the run up to the last election was to level up the country. Now the government has published a white paper telling us how it intends to do that. So what are the plans, will they work and do they go far enough?

David Aaronovitch is joined by:

Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)\nJennifer Williams, social affairs editor at the Manchester Evening News\nPaul Swinney, director of policy and research at the think tank Centre for Cities \nTom Forth, founder The Data City

Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter\nStudio manager: James Beard\nProduction co-ordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed\nEditor: Richard Vadon