
Rishi Sunak on Wednesday handed out bacon butties after taking the sleeper train to Cornwall - and immediately ran into criticism that his plan to restore national service would cost the region more than £70 million.
Wales and Cornwall would be the two biggest losers of the Conservatives’ campaign pledge to pay for their controversial plan in part by scrapping the UK Shared Prosperity Fund from 2028-29, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).