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Marcus is a research fellow at IPPR North, leading their research on regional economics, local economic development, and transportation.

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People in regions like the North will be frustrated too by the pace of change (Image: Mark Hall / NationalWorld)

Analysis Will the Budget level up the UK? It's a step when we needed a leap

Jeremy Hunt failed to truly measure up to the challenges our country faces - the immediate cost-of-living emergency and the longstanding need to level up and end regional inequality (Image: Mark Hall / NationalWorld)

Analysis: Jeremy Hunt failed to fix the foundations for levelling up

Rishi Sunak’s Budget budget simply failed the test on levelling up (Photo: Getty)

Levelling up? This was a half-baked flurry of piecemeal announcements