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LIVE: Government announces levelling up plan

  • - “12 big missions” the Government wants to achieve by 2030 in order to improve the lives of those in the North
  • - Promise to “level up” forgotten and deprived communities was a key theme of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 2019 general election campaign
  • - Durham County Council will be invited to agree a new county deal as part of plans to provide more power to the region in a “devolution revolution”
  • - Plans to bring the country’s local public transport systems much closer to London standards and ensuring most of the country has access to 5G broadband.
  • - But Labour say the announcement is just a “series of rehashed announcements,

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