Levelling up ‘must be led by England’s left behind neighbourhoods’

Report by all-party parliamentary group says policies must be guided by local needs, not a ‘national template’

England’s most “left behind” neighbourhoods will remain places where “human flourishing is limited and potential squandered” without changes in government levelling up policy, an all-party group of MPs and peers has said.

The neighbourhoods, where 2.4 million people live, could even see inequalities worsening over the next two decades without reform.