Boris Johnson has repeated his pledge to stop ‘overdevelopment’ in some parts of the United Kingdom through his levelling up agenda.

The prime minister, speaking at the Conservative party’s spring conference on Saturday, said his government’s levelling up policies would tackle the ‘old model’ which has left the UK the most ‘imbalanced European economy”. The levelling up agenda seeks to spread wealth and opportunity to other parts of England outside London & the south east.

He said: “By unleashing talent everywhere you stop the overheating and the stress and the overdevelopment, that is a part of the failed economic model, and we take the whole country forward together.”