Boris Johnson's flagship levelling up plans have been slammed as devoid of "new ideas" as the Government desperately tries to move on from Downing Street parties.
The Prime Minister claimed the Levelling Up White Paper, which will be published at lunchtime today, represented "the defining mission of this government".
It comes after the Tories swooped to victory in 2019 after winning backing from Labour's traditional voters in the so-called Red Wall.