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Investment in skills, education and health needs to be commensurate with that planned for physical infrastructure, according to the IPPR. Credit: Snapwire/Pexels
The government needs to invest more in people – not just infrastructure – and distribute power away from the centre to address regional inequality, writes Anna Round of the Institute for Public Policy Research
A year after UK prime minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative party won the general election on a manifesto that pledged to “level up” every part of the country, the need to address Britain’s long-standing regional divides is even more urgent. The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened old inequalities, for example in income and wealth, and opened up new ones such as digital access.