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Jeremy Armstrong

Elderly Tory voter forced to sell his assets as heating home now costs £3,000 a year

Widower John Rowland, a lifelong Tory voter, lives in a remote stone cottage high on the North Yorkshire moors in Rishi Sunak 's Richmond constituency.

While Mr Sunak is building a swimming pool at his home, Tory voters like Mr Rowland are struggling to make ends meet.

Heating for his 600-year-old property has rocketed to £3,000-a-year, even 'turned down to the lowest setting'.

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