Sir Keir Starmer has praised Boris Johnson’s vision of levelling up Britain as he accused Rishi Sunak of killing the flagship policy.
The Labour leader will launch his party’s local election campaign on Thursday by pledging to tackle the “alienation and powerlessness” across much of Britain.
In an article for The Times, Starmer and Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour leader, writing together for the first time, said that under Johnson the Tories were “starting to understand” the issues behind regional inequality.
They said that the analysis behind the plans was “good” and that the former prime minister and his government “talked a good game about how Britain needed to build up all parts of the country”.
However, they argued that the policy was “killed
