A Bolton MP has blasted the comments from former chancellor and contender to be Prime Minister Rishi Sunak about taking money from “deprived urban areas” as unacceptable.
Yasmin Qureshi, who represents Bolton South East, has said the words show the Conservatives had been “paying lip service to levelling up.”
In a leaked video, Mr Sunak said in Tunbridge Wells: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas…