Wising up to levelling up

Wising up to levelling up ‘Levelling up’ has become an earworm. It featured highly in the Conservative manifesto in 2019, which was referring to improving infrastructure, skills, productivity and economic growth across the country. The idea is to make the UK economy less lop-sided, and less focused on London and the South East.

But the government’s levelling up strategy is still under construction. The recently announced Levelling Up Fund is mainly focused on basic infrastructure like transport, not health.

So is levelling up a real and serious aspiration? What would a strategy look like that might also help reduce health inequalities? Podcast from The Health Foundation.