RISHI Sunak has doubled down on a boast he made about cutting funding for poor areas to send money to wealthy parts of southern England which was uncovered during his failed leadership bid earlier this year.
The new Prime Minister was grilled over a speech he gave in the wealthy Kent town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, in which he hailed diverting cash from “deprived urban areas”.
Sunak – who officially took over from the disastrous Liz Truss on Tuesday – said he had been “telling the truth for the good of the country” when he made the comments about boosting state investment in areas like Tunbridge Wells, which were caught on camera in a video leaked to the New Statesman.
