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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Nigel Nelson

Two in three of Michael Gove's levelling up officials still based in London

Two in three of Michael Gove’s civil servants working on his flagship levelling-up plans are still based in London.

New figures released by the Levelling-up Secretary show that of 3,011 officials, 1,929 of them are still beavering away in the capital.

Shadow Levelling-up Secretary Lisa Nandy said: “We’ve had quite enough of ministers and civil servants sitting in Whitehall picking winners and losers in our nations and regions.

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