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Will the levelling up plans work?

David Aaronovitch and guests examine the government's recently published white paper on levelling up the country. What are the plans, will they work and do they go far enough?

One of Boris Johnson鈥檚 key campaign promises in the run up to the last election was to level up the country. Now the government has published a white paper telling us how it intends to do that. So what are the plans, will they work and do they go far enough?

David Aaronovitch is joined by:

Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
Jennifer Williams, social affairs editor at the Manchester Evening News
Paul Swinney, director of policy and research at the think tank Centre for Cities
Tom Forth, founder The Data City

Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter
Studio manager: James Beard
Production co-ordinators: Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed
Editor: Richard Vadon

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Thu 10 Feb 2022 20:00
麻豆社 Radio 4

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