Levelling up plans will fail, IfG report claims

By Heather Jameson | 31 March 2022

The Government’s plans for levelling up will not cut regional inequality, a report from the influential Institute for Government (IfG) has claimed.

And plans to spread devolution deals across the whole UK are unrealistic and have failed to take account of the time and capacity needed to negotiate the deals, the think tank said.

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