‘Levelling up doesn't happen by magic’: Devolution is ‘essential for tackling inequality’, Keir Starmer says

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to give regional authorities more powers under a Labour government, as he said that "levelling up doesn't happen by magic". The Labour leader said that he wanted the new powers to be used to create wealth outside of London, the south-east and the major cities."Devolution is absolutely essential for taking on regional inequality," he said in a speech in Dudley launching Labour's local election campaign.

But he would not be drawn on new money for local authorities, claiming that there was no "magic money tree" with the Conservatives having "broken the economy".He said: "I can't pretend that we can turn the taps on, pretend that damage hasn't been done to the economy, it has. The way out of that is to grow our economy". He said that Conservatives had not done the "hard yards" on levelling up.

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