What will it take to really level-up?
Boris Johnson talks about "levelling up" Britain. But after 40 years of deindustrialisation, a decade of austerity, a pandemic with huge economic repercussions and up-coming hard Brexit -what does "levelling-up" mean? This event will explore what it means and what it would take to really level up?
Boris Johnson talks about "levelling up" Britain. But after 40 years of deindustrialisation, a decade of austerity, a pandemic with huge economic repercussions and up-coming hard Brexit -what does "levelling-up" mean? This event will explore what it means and what will it really take to level up?
Speakers:
Prof Diane Reay, Sociologist and academic
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester (invited)
Dr Kailash Chand OBE, Vice President of the BMA
Neil McInroy, CEO of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies
Dr Faiza Shaheen, Director of CLASS
Laura Pidcock (invited)