The two potential prime ministers have been urged to commit to implementing the “levelling up” agenda, as new polling finds it more popular with prospective Tory voters than Brexit.
The co-author of the party’s last manifesto, Rachel Wolf, and former ministers have expressed concern that the Boris Johnson government’s signature policy has only sporadically cropped up during the campaign, with candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss concentrating primarily on tax.
New polling from political consultancy Public First found a higher level of net support for levelling up, both among voters overall and with those planning to vote Tory at the next election, than for leaving the EU.
