Thread by @UKandEU

🔊The Prime Minister has delivered his big speech on the 'levelling up' agenda ⬇

But what do we already know about 'levelling up'?

And what does the research show about how regional equality can be achieved?

Read this #ThursdayThread to find out more!🤳

Reflecting on lessons from elsewhere in Europe on how to achieve regional economic convergence, @thomasforth @ODILeeds @TheDataCity argues for a commitment to invest more in skills, transport, research and development & culture in cities across the UK👇👇

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@michaelkenny_ & @TKelsey915 lay out the evidence that 'a top-down plan for place-based intervention, based upon bilateral negotiations with local areas, runs the risk of enforcing the priorities & orthodoxies of the centre'📝

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@Dept_of_POLIS

Our UK focus group research with 'comfortable leavers' found these voters see Brexit as 'an opportunity to address the things they thought had gone wrong. This was often expressed in terms of loss: of industry, community services or national pride' ⬇⬇

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And, the UK will need to replace EU Regional Policy investments if less well off places in the UK are not to lose out. Dr Benito Giordano of @UoLManSchool explains the lessons that the UK government could learn from EU structural funds 👇👇

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