Liverpool has been overlooked for investment because of the city's "fractious relationship" with the Tories, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has suggested.
Mr Rotheram pointed to a number of bids for levelling up cash and bus funding being rejected, saying if they had been put forward in places like Oxford and Cambridge they would have been approved.
Earlier this month, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove was accused of short-changing the Liverpool City Region with the post-Brexit 'shared prosperity fund'.
