Local government must have adequate funding to level-up deprived English towns, according to new research.
The Conservative government’s promise to level-up towns that have been left behind is under threat from the economic impacts of COVID-19 and Brexit, the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned.
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