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STEVE TURNER calls for the creation of a national recovery council in which workers have a collective say in order to repair our economy in post-Covid Britain
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AHEAD of the Chancellor’s Spending Review, let us cast our minds back to Boris Johnson’s infamous promise to “level up” Britain. 

As with all of Johnson’s slogans, it is a promise of great anticipation. The sunny uplands to which we are to be led are always just over the next horizon. 

But come Wednesday’s Spending Review it is crunch time — will the Chancellor put his money where his boss’s mouth is?

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