Levelling up: Government white paper likely to be delayed to 2022on December 5, 2021 at 5:31 pm

Labour accuses the government of being in “disarray”, but ministers promise to tackle regional inequality.

But government sources dismissed the claim, telling the BBC recently appointed Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove was determined to address the issue and a committee he was chairing had already met several times, with “very good engagement” from fellow cabinet ministers.