Rishi Sunak defends himself after boasting about diverting cash AWAY from 'deprived urban areas'
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Rishi Sunak defends himself after boasting about diverting cash AWAY from 'deprived urban areas'

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Rishi Sunak has defended his remarks about how he took cash away from 'deprived urban areas' and gave it to more prosperous towns. Labour said it was 'scandalous' that Mr Sunak was 'openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers' money to rich Tory shires'. Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen said: 'They should post the full clip, which would show Rishi Sunak talk about the local council funding formula and how it discriminated against non metropolitan areas in favour of cities - by giving them less money for things like adult and children services, highways and fire.' Rishi Sunak addressed the comments in an interview with Sky News, clarifying he was saying deprivation exists outside of urban areas too Labour said it was 'scandalous' that Mr Sunak was 'openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers' money to rich Tory shires'. In the video, Mr Sunak told Tory supporters in affluent Tunbridge Wells: 'I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserve because we inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.

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