ECONOMIC GROWTH

Time to turn down levelling up?

The Government’s decisions to scrap the Leeds leg of HS2 and amend the social care cap have both been accused of contradicting the spirit of levelling up. Michael Burton wonders whether the phrase is becoming an albatross for ministers.

Politics is littered with soundbites that began as election slogans, gave their name to Government policies, then became ridiculed and were consigned to the dustbin of history.

Back in the 1960s it was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's ‘the white heat of technology,' soon overtaken by the reality of Britain's ageing industrial base. More recently was Theresa May's ill-fated ‘just about managing' and ‘the left-behind,' swiftly scrapped by her successor.

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