Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson has branded Levelling Up "nonsense" as thousands of job vacancies in the city remain unfilled.
Mayor Anderson was speaking this morning at a Labour Party Conference fringe event at the Tate art gallery, where she joined a panel to discuss the need to bridge to UK's skills gap. The city leader criticised the Tory government's Levelling Up agenda, which she suggested was more of a campaign slogan than a proactive policy.
She said: “I think Levelling Up is a nonsense really. I think they’ve tried to make a brand that rebrands the term equality and makes people thing its was their idea, when actually the Labour Party is the party for fairness and equality."
