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The government department in charge of housing and local government is dropping levelling up from its title, the communities minister Jim McMahon has said.
No, it was firmly tippexed out of the department yesterday, so we are now the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Why that is important for me is levelling up was only ever a slogan, it wasn’t a thing that people felt in their communities.
We certainly believe in addressing the regional inequalities that are holding our communities and our economy back.
But we don’t believe a slogan fixes it, we believe action fixes it, we believe building 1.5m new homes fixes it, we believe investment in the NHS does, investment in our schools system, investment in transport and skills does.
