The end of ‘levelling up’ suggests the Tories, like Labour, cannot abandon a dying neoliberal model that the public rejects
LISA NANDY rightly observes that the Tories have “abandoned” levelling up — the promised targeted investment that would address Britain’s yawning regional inequalities.
Conservative rivals compete to pledge the most extreme form of Thatcherism, demanding corporation tax cuts and yet more deregulation.
We are so used to Tories saying one thing and doing the opposite that the significance of this may be lost on the left.
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