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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

‘An outrage’: Tories’ post-Brexit fund will not match EU grants until 2025

Boris Johnson campaigning for general election 2019
The Conservative’s 2019 manifesto promised ‘at a minimum’ to match the average EU subsidy of about £1.5bn a year to help the most deprived parts of the UK. Photograph: Reuters

A government fund designed to replace EU grants lost due to Brexit has been criticised as “nothing more than an outrage” that will leave English regions tens of millions of pounds worse off than when Britain was in the EU.

The Conservative’s 2019 manifesto promised “at a minimum” to match the average EU subsidy of about £1.5bn a year to help the most deprived parts of the UK.

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