Sunak boasts of diverting money from ‘deprived urban areas’ in unearthed clip

Rishi Sunak made the comments speaking to grassroots Tory members at Tunbridge Wells in Kent in July

RISHI Sunak has boasted that he will undo funding given to “deprived urban areas”, redirecting these to wealthy towns in a recently uncovered video.

In a video shared with The New Statesman, apparently from July 29, the Tory PM hopeful said: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure that areas like this [Kent] are getting the funding they deserve.