Rishi Sunak doubles down on plan to divert cash from poor to rich areas

Rishi Sunak has remained firm in his belief that too much cash has been directed towards deprived urban areas

RISHI Sunak has doubled down on plans to take funding away from deprived urban areas and direct it towards wealthy towns and rural districts.

Last month, in a video obtained by The New Statesman, the Conservative leadership hopeful said during a speech to Tory members in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, that "we inherited formulas from the Labour Party, that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas".