Generosity often increases a fewfold as every new year rolls in. South Korean actor Byeon Woo-seok seems to be an avid ...

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove defended the government's record on levelling up when the figures were revealed The UK government has spent less than 10% of its £4.8bn fund for levelling up since ...

A council leader has described the latest allocation of levelling up money as "another slap in the face" after his area's bids were rejected. Sefton Council's Ian Maher said plans to revitalise Bootle ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Labour government would axe the term “levelling up” to describe attempts to tackle regional inequalities in ...

Jack Newman is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, working on the LIPSIT project, which is funded by the ESRC. Every political party relies on slogans to sell their policies and justify ...

Lots of people are talking about 'levelling up' right now - a plan to make life fairer for millions of people across the UK. It's something that has been talked about by politicians for a long time, ...

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 ...

Jack Newman is a Research Fellow on the LIPSIT Project, which is funded by the ESRC. The promise to “level up and unite the country” has been a central message since the current UK government came to ...

INCREDIBLE AS IT may seem, there was a time when MPs did not talk incessantly about “levelling up”. According to Hansard, Parliament’s chronicler, the phrase was uttered in the House of Commons just ...