When Michael Gove was appointed secretary of state for “Levelling Up, Housing and Communities” the mindless mumbo jumbo of his job title would not have been lost on him. A year on, he appears to have come up with a solution, which is to take the whole thing entirely literally.
He has now, with a year to go before any general election, released his big plan for housing, and it is to build communities by levelling up. Yes, that’s really it.
His speech on Monday morning on the subject was less an actual plan, more an essay, but by now such things are to be expected.
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