The problem that the government seeks to solve with its "Levelling Up" agenda is clear - the fact that the UK is one of the world's most geographically unequal major economies. Not just that, the inequality in the economic performance of the UK's regions has grown materially over the past three decades. While that has for many in politics during that time been an inevitable side-effect of having one of the world's fastest-growing regions - Greater London - this White Paper marks out a new consensus, that this inequity has been a choice. Other nations around the world have conducted intensive strategic plans to close ... (full story)