{"id":30241,"date":"2022-03-04T07:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T07:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themint.kinsta.cloud\/?p=30241"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:35:21","slug":"levelling-up-will-it-turn-britain-into-a-more-equal-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/levelling-up-will-it-turn-britain-into-a-more-equal-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Levelling up &#8211; will it turn Britain into a more equal country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8216;Levelling up&#8217; is the nearest the Conservative Party has to a big idea and now it has just become<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/levelling-up-the-united-kingdom\"> a White Paper, <\/a>which opens with the following words:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Levelling up is a moral, social and economic programme for the whole of government. The Levelling Up White Paper sets out how we will spread opportunity more equally across the UK.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So has this White Paper converted a slogan into a credible strategy to close the gaping inequality gap in Britain, now at near post-war levels? Or is it just more &#8216;Blah, Blah, Blah&#8217;?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Check out the lively debate on one of the most important issues of the day: how to break\u00a0what Stewart Lansley has called &#8216;Britain\u2019s long high inequality, high poverty cycle&#8217;?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>It was chaired by Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of NEF, with Stewart Lansley, author and academic, Erica Roscoe from IPPR North and Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Levelling up&#8217; is the nearest the Conservative Party has to a big idea and now it has just become a White Paper, which opens with the following words: \u00a0 &#8220;Levelling &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,58,45],"tags":[2100,1741,2097,2047,1819,1222,260],"class_list":["post-30241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-government","category-uk-ireland","tag-andrew-carter","tag-conservatives","tag-erica-roscoe","tag-miatta-fahnbulleh","tag-north-south-inequality","tag-public-policy","tag-stewart-lansley","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}