Yet what I saw, bizarrely, was not so much another Healey in the making as Boris Johnson with a Northern accent, or even ...

Successive chancellors and prime ministers have grappled with Britain’s regional inequalities, which will be the main ...

The presumptive prime minister is making the case for independence and offering the SNP an open goal thanks to his stupid comments on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former prime minister Boris Johnson has called on the government to accelerate levelling-up measures such as Northern Powerhouse ...

BBC Verify has looked at what impact further devolution could be expected to have on the UK.

Nov 17 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the granting of greater powers of self-governance to the Scottish parliament a 'disaster' during a call with Conservative MPs, The Sun ...

Boris Johnson has conceded he offered the “skeleton” of plans to level up the nation when he proposed greater regional devolution in a speech billed as a major bid to define his vision for the UK. The ...

The Communities Secretary said the prospective prime minister’s plans for an outpost of No 10 based in Manchester were a ...

Boris Johnson is an American-born British politician, author and former journalist. As a Conservative Party politician, Mr. Johnson has served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom since 2019.

The government’s levelling up strategy to tackle regional inequality promises a “revolution in local democracy”. It seeks to do this largely through regional devolution – setting up more localised ...