RIP ‘levelling up’ – another Johnson catchphrase that failed to deliver | Simon Jenkins

The shocking north-south divide will never be rebalanced by ministers doling out centralised funds to favourite projects

Levelling up is cancelled. It is so yesterday, past its sell-by date, rather Boris Johnson, defunct. Tory MPs have been given orders to drop it as a mere soundbite since “nobody knows what it means”. Instead they should use “community enhancing” and something called “gauging up”.

There is no limit to the linguistic banality of modern British government. The proof is in this wee...