Whitehall’s centralised system can’t deliver Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘level up’

Posted on 7 February 2022

New article by Professor Martin Smith

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The government’s levelling up strategy to tackle regional inequality promises a “revolution in local democracy”. It seeks to do this largely through regional devolution – setting up more localised governments with their own mayors to give greater autonomy and power to the “left behind” regions says Professor Martin Smith in his latest article which was published on The Conversation this week.

You can read the full article here: Whitehall’s centralised system can’t deliver Boris Johnson’s promises to ‘level up’