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The strength of what needs to change in this country is akin to the reunification of Germany

and if you look or how much money West Germany is spending East journey, It was 1.5 trillion pounds has been spent.

That's nowhere near the kind of sums its government are putting forward.

Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics. I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor.

Now a very important document was published in Westminster this week.

The Sue Gray Report.

Sue Gray Report. Because Sue Gray is. Gray Report.

Because Sue Gray is working.

No, not that one.

The government's levelling up white paper.

It's been rather overshadowed by parties,

parties, and well well more parties. But it's crucial. The toys were

elected on a pledge to tackle the UK's regional inequalities after all and

now a dozen of those promises will be made law

for the rest of the decade in the new levelling up white paper that's right today we're

drilling down into leveling up.

Right, so first up, what is leveling up?

Now, when this idea was mooted by Boris Johnson

before the 2019 election, it was never really defined, a bit like Brexit in the early part of Theresa May's

Premiership Brexit meant Brexit levelling up meant levelling up and even when

the government established a department called the levelling department, they couldn't tell me quickly

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