Does Liz Truss really believe in levelling up? She doesn’t talk about it that much, and it wasn’t really a major feature of the ‘fiscal event’ recently (though given the way that’s gone, this might not be a bad thing). This evening Levelling Up Minister Dehenna Davison insisted that it really was still a thing. She told a Tory ‘fringe’* event that she didn’t understand why people were questioning its longevity, saying:
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen this emerging narrative that the government is dropping levelling up, isn’t having it anywhere near as much of a priority, and I honestly have no idea where that has come from, because levelling up is very much at the heart of what this government is about.
She added that it was also ‘core to me, core to who I am, core to my ethos and everything that I believe in’.
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