It's getting messy again... Liz Truss wouldn’t deny her campaign was behind the lead of a video featuring Rishi Sunak making controversial comments about his economic approach.
foreign secretary proposed a policy which would have cut the wages of government employees outside the south eastThe controversial comments have reignited blue-on-blue clashes during a crucial period in the race to be the next prime minister.
Speaking to Tory members in Royal Tubridge Wells on July 29, Mr Sunak said: ‘I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserve because we inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.
Jake Berry, chairman of the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs, slammed Mr Sunak for his ‘boasts about trying to funnel vital investment away from deprived areas’. Former minister Andrew Mtchell, a supporter of Mr Sunak, insisted the comments had been ‘misunderstood’, saying he was arguing for funding on town centres to be utilised on a ‘wider front’.
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