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William Mata

What is levelling up and why has Labour scrapped the phrase?

Angela Rayner has banished the phrase “levelling up” from Government jargon, breaking away from the Conservative administration that introduced it. 

The new deputy prime minister posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (July 9) that she had changed her title to remove the phrase and announced a new focus for the department.

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