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The UK Government’s Levelling Up plan has been described as the ‘most comprehensive, ambitious plan’ of its kind, but it is already facing criticisms. Here’s everything you need to know about the strategy that Michael Gove has unveiled

But many of Levelling Up plan Michael Gove announced for Leeds are things we already knew

Michael Gove’s strategy faces myriad obstacles, says former environment secretary Michael Heseltine

Opposition parties say document appeared ‘cobbled together in a rush’

"We are at last experiencing a new empire: an empire where the happy south stamps over the cruel, dirty, toothless face of the northerner"

Editorial: Resources as well as pious intentions are needed to drive an economic renaissance in the north and Midlands

Instead of fixing the inequalities that run across the UK, Johnson’s Tories are combining culture war with electioneering, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Levelling Up White Paper was finally unveiled by Michael Gove and the government today with great fanfare - but it comes two years after Boris Johnson's pledges, throws it forward to 2030 and has no new money. Here are the biggest problems, according to its critics

The ‘innovation accelerators’ would be centred on Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and the Glasgow City Region.

Michael Gove has apologised for arguing tighter restrictions were needed over Christmas to curb the spread of Covid.

‘Missions’ are not ‘mechanism for holding government to account’ and ‘distinct from delivery targets’, white paper says