The PM promised to raise levels of income in ‘every part of the UK’ – but what have the Tories done so far?
Boris Johnson was elected Conservative leader two years ago on a promise to raise the level of income in the regions. His party’s manifesto that year included a commitment to “levelling up every part of the UK – not just investing in our great towns and cities, as well as rural and coastal areas, but giving them far more control of how that investment is made”. Two years on, however, the exact definition of Johnson’s idea of levelling up remains vague.
