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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Heather Stewart and Josh Halliday

Levelling up: Gove calls time on ‘postcode lottery’ as strategy launched

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Wolverhampton is one of the first cities to receive a 'levelling up' fund. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Targets to reduce inequalities across society by 2030 are to be enshrined in law as part of long-awaited levelling up proposals to be published today, amid new rows over funding for the government’s headline policy.

Michael Gove will promise to “call time on the postcode lottery” of inequalities across Britain, setting 12 legally binding “missions” to improve health, living standards, transport, crime and wellbeing by the end of the decade.

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