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BBC: Conservative MPs launch ‘levelling up’ taskforce
Financial Times: Earnings in new Tory seats are 5% lower than in Labour constituencies
The Times: Budget must set targets to level up North, say Tories.
The Telegraph: Tory MPs pile pressure on PM over ‘levelling-up’ promise
Daily Mail: Planned rise in living wage could be shelved as UK firms face slump after coronavirus lockdown.
Daily Express: London wages are 70% higher than elsewhere – this CANNOT go on says STEPHEN POLLARD
HuffPost UK: 40 Tory MPs form new group to demand help for poorer parts of the UK.
Channel 4: Red Wall Tory MPs urge government to ‘level up’
The Yorkshire Post: The five areas in Yorkshire and the Humber where under a third of pupils go to university
The Yorkshire Post: Pressure to end North-South education divide grow,
The Yorkshire Post: Two-thirds of people in the North don’t believe Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ pledge’.
Eastern Daily Press: Lack of public transport keeps wages down in parts of Norfolk, claims new Taskforce of MPs
Rotherham Business News: MP joins “Levelling Up Taskforce”
Cumbria Crack: Barrow MP joins ‘levelling up’ taskforce
Buxton Advertiser: High Peak MP vows to repay voters’ trust by delivering on ‘levelling up’ promises
Miriam Cates MP for Times Red Box: Conservatives must not forget promises to the working class
Neil O’ Brien MP for Conservative Home: Introducing the new Levelling up Taskforce – and its first report on how we can measure progress
Neil O’Brien MP spoke on Times Radio.
Dehenna Davison MP spoke on BBC Radio 4.
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