If levelling up is replacing with new central funding the Christmas lights that local councils had to cut due to central funding cuts then,... it'll probably win loads of votes in England. So,... yeah.

I find it hugely wasteful and frustrating, and I really worry about the massive ongoing reshaping of the UK constitution (the continuing super-centralisation of the state in England), but it will be popular in England.

The very specific story to which I refer. https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/end-era-leeds-council-plans-cut-christmas-lights-budget-two-thirds-3037521

The end point is that the UK still has an unusually weak economy among our neighbours. But the strength of an economy isn't everything. It's not even that much. I didn't predict that the Conservative Party would become the party of de-growth, but I suspect that they will.

The obvious questions becomes, and I'll try write this up soon since it's been becoming obvious for a while,... why bother with local government at all? The delivery side of it will still be needed, but if local government just delivers central government policy,... why elect it?

Subnational government was in many ways the product of the limit on how fast a horse could ride. Explicitly in France, a department's boundaries could not extend further than a day's ride from the seat of the prefect in the departmental capital. But now we have Zoom not horses.

We almost all love the idea of the National Health Service in England. We increasingly move towards a National Planning Service. Why not have a National Care Service? A National Bin Service? A National Pothole Service? A National High Street Flower Service? Why not?

We abolished local weights and measures with Magna Carta. And no-one seriously thinks we should go back.
We abolished local time with the railways. And no-one seriously thinks we should go back.
Now we have digital government. Which localisms today will seem daft in two decades?