New poll gives Labour its biggest lead since Liz Truss meltdown as ‘Tory towns’ gain most from new fundsTHE Tory general election campaign hit more trouble on Saturday as Rishi Sunak faced accusations of using levelling up funds to win votes and Labour opened its biggest poll lead since the disastrous premiership of Liz Truss.As Sunak tried to fire up his party’s campaign ahead of the first crucial TV debate with Keir Starmer on Tuesday, it emerged that more than half of 30 towns that were each promised £20m of regeneration funding on Saturday were in constituencies won by Tory MPs at the last election. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/sunak-poll-blow-levelling-up-cash-for-votes-row-labour-lead
Author : Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Toby Helm
Publish date : 2024-06-01 20:51:59
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