The Levelling Up fund was “nothing more than a beauty contest” pitting areas against one another according to the Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor.
Earlier this week it was confirmed only two areas of Merseyside would receive any funding from government as part of its £5bn pot to help overlooked areas of the UK in need of support with infrastructural and development projects. The cash reserve is a key part of the government’s Levelling Up agenda which helped deliver the Conservative’s general election victory in 2019. The Michael Gove-led Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced which applications had been successful on Wednesday evening.
Leaders from across the Liverpool City Region gave their reaction to the funding stream designations during a meeting of the combined authority this afternoon. Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said the distribution of cash “was as we all predicted, nothing more than a beauty contest.”
