11 Mar 2020

Are people convinced by government’s levelling up agenda?

North of England Correspondent

This looks like the biggest sustained give-away since the early nineties, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.

This looks like the biggest sustained give-away since the early nineties, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. As well as the emergency coronavirus funds – hundreds of billions of pounds are ear-marked for infrastructure spending, which Rishi Sunak described as a chance “to level up opportunity and share prosperity”.