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BBCNEWS BBC News February 4, 2022 13:15:00

A high courtjudge in belfast has ordered that checks on food and agricultural goods traded between the british mainland and northern ireland must remain in place until a judicial review next month. the ruling comes two days after a minister in the devolved government ordered that the inspections be stopped a move that has triggered a political crisis. the checks are part of the brexit deal struck between the britain and the eu to prevent the return of a hard border on the island of ireland. joining me now is sam mcbride who is the northern ireland editor of the belfast telegraph. how big a crisis is this? it is an existential crisis for devolution in northern ireland. first minister of dup design yesterday, that automatically put sinn fein s deputy minister out of office. we were ....

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BBCNEWS BBC News February 2, 2022 11:10:00

Devolution that they are seeking to progress as part of the levelling up agenda? t m progress as part of the levelling up atenda? , , agenda? i m guessing the government will art ue agenda? i m guessing the government will argue that agenda? i m guessing the government will argue that it agenda? i m guessing the government will argue that it is listening will argue that it is listening carefully to what different parts of the uk need. do you think that listening process has happened? well, we have seen the delayed paper today, there is more detail to come, we ve had no meaningful engagement or consultation over that period. so we have been waiting, for example, the replacement of eu structural funding, but scotland has benefited considerably over the last few years from eu structuralfunding, we are still awaiting detail about what will replace it in the form of the shared prosperity funding or otherwise. and just a few months ago we saw the uk government making decisions, spend ....

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BBCNEWS BBC News at One February 2, 2022 13:02:00

The gap between rich and poor areas of the country, as part of its so called levelling up agenda. the policy, which the prime minister has described as a defining mission, will take until 2030 to deliver, and aims to tackle regional inequalities and help overlooked communities. there are 12 missions or targets which include. increasing regional devolution with plans to create more mayors with london style powers, improving public transport to bring it up to london s standards. refocusing education spending on the most disadvantaged areas. and providing access to sg broadband to most households. and there will be increased public investment in research and development away from the south east. but there is no new money attached, and labour says there is little fresh thinking. here s our political correspondent damian grammaticas. we area we are a government committed to levelling up. it is we are a government committed to levelling un we are a government committed to levelling lip- ....

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BBCNEWS The Papers February 12, 2022 23:39:00

Leveling up. state to date with the government of levelin: u -. , ., ., ., leveling up. yes, i mean we are not uuite leveling up. yes, i mean we are not quite clear leveling up. yes, i mean we are not quite clear how leveling up. yes, i mean we are not quite clear how much leveling up. yes, i mean we are not. quite clear how much damage covenant has done to the finances of the government but it is pretty clear the chancellor and he is keen to find ways to save money. boris johnson by contrast is traditionally being a spender. he enjoys spending money and leveling up is part of this. leveling up is not all about splashing around cash but partly about devolution, devolving powers to local authorities, but i think part of it is big infrastructure projects, railroads, that sort of thing getting money up to the north and the midlands and here we hear from stephen barclay, the new chief of staff or borisjohnson, that there is going to be a return to a different sort of conservatism to r ....

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BBCNEWS BBC News February 2, 2022 15:04:00

And i agree and that is why we have got a plan for investment and they have none. she says we need to improve connectivity and that is why connectivity has gone from 10% to 60% in the last ten years and they have no plan. we have nine county deals and powers for mayors and the only devolution in england that labour ever offered was to london and they did nothing for the north and they did nothing for the north and they did nothing for the north and the midlands. when it came to devolution. she says she wants safer town centres, so why is it every time we have brought forward policies for tougher sentences labour have voted against? no plans, no idea, no answers, and they also ask about new money, do they not remember what liam byrne wrote in 2010? when the last labour government left, there was no money left, but now, now, they are so ....

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