No news in Tottenham that Sunak has cut funding. What has he done with the money?
The New Statesman has published a brief video clip of Rishi Sunak telling a small audience of Tories in a leafy part of Kent that as Chancellor he has been diverting money from deprived urban areas to towns in the Shires.
The first part of this people in Tottenham already knew- one of the poorest areas of the UK despite being in London. Sunak however hasn’t been Chancellor for that long and the Tories have been in Office since 2010. They have been cutting funds for places like Tottenham for 12 years. Sunak has inherited the, vicious, policy.
The more puzzling question is what they have been doing with the money they are not spending on the inner city. If they have been using it to improve public services in the Shires (which certainly need it, just not at the expense of urban areas) since 2010 then why is the levelling up agenda needed now?
Maybe this is all related to the magic money tree in some way but like so much in the Tory leadership contest it appears to be rather at odds with reality
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