‘We inherited a bunch of formulation from the Labour Get together that shoved all of the funding into disadvantaged city areas and that wanted to be undone.’
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been boasting about taking cash away from ‘disadvantaged city areas’ and handing it over to rich cities, as video footage emerged of him chatting with Tories in Tunbridge Wells.
The video, obtained by the New Statesman exhibits Sunak saying: “I managed to begin altering the funding formulation to make it possible for areas like this are getting the funding that they deserve as a result of we inherited a bunch of formulation from the Labour Get together that shoved all of the funding into disadvantaged city areas and that wanted to be undone.
“I began the work of undoing that”.
The footage, which principally exhibits Sunak admitting that Labour had been levelling up, whereas the Tories are levelling down, drew criticism on social media.
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Lisa Nandy mentioned that the revelations had been scandalous. She tweeted:
“It’s scandalous that Rishi Sunak funnelled public cash away from disadvantaged areas and gave it to prosperous Tory shires.
“The Levelling Up Secretary must urgently examine what adjustments had been made to funding formulation and what justified the adjustments.”
Nandy has additionally written to levelling Up Secretary and Tunbridge Wells MP Greg Clark about Sunak’s “deeply regarding” declare funding was moved away from “disadvantaged city areas” to favour others, asking him to urgently examine the adjustments to funding formulation.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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