
THE post-Brexit Tory government has made levelling up a central part of its agenda – but it’s failing in Scotland while favouring London, new research shows.
After the UK left the EU the Boris Johnson administration pushed the idea of levelling up, a series of policies aimed at reducing inequalities between different areas. The effort has been so key to recent government messaging that the Housing Department was even renamed to include the phrase, with Michael Gove made Levelling Up Secretary.