“He’s actually laughing within the public’s face. However for most individuals, the failure of the Tory Govt to deal with inequality on this nation is not any laughing matter.”
If you wished additional proof of simply how out of contact Tory management hopeful Rishi Sunak is, you solely should view the footage of the previous chancellor laughing when requested ‘what does levelling up really imply?’ throughout a hustings with celebration members yesterday.
Truss and Sunak appeared earlier than celebration members in Darlington the place they confronted a grilling from TalkTV’s Tom Newton Dunn.
In a clip shared from the hustings on-line, Sunak was as soon as extra requested about levelling up, the flagship Tory coverage beneath Boris Johnson to slender inequalities within the nation, however which it’s fairly clear to many is merely empty rhetoric, the goal of which is to maintain the Tories’ fragile electoral coalition collectively.
When requested what it meant by an viewers member who stated they struggled to know it, Sunak laughed in response, resulting in condemnation.
Labour MP Sarah Owen shared footage of Sunak’s response and tweeted: “He’s actually laughing within the public’s face. However for most individuals, the failure of the Tory Govt to deal with inequality on this nation is not any laughing matter.”
It comes after video footage final week confirmed Sunak boasting about taking cash away from ‘disadvantaged city areas’ and handing it over to rich cities.
The video, obtained by the New Statesman reveals Sunak saying: “I managed to start out altering the funding formulation to ensure that 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”.
Clearly tackling inequalities isn’t actually a precedence for the richest MP in Parliament.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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