Jo Lappin

Jo Lappin is Chief Executive of the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership

Business is key to levelling up

From our UK edition

For the government’s levelling up mission to succeed, the voices of businesses must be heard and understood. Of course public service investment and devolutionary change are essential to the levelling up project, too. But in every community, it is business leaders who will be making some of the most significant and visible contributions. For they will be raising living standards by training new generations into skilled roles, creating well paid jobs and pioneering new markets, as well as funding the public sector through tax contributions.