Being more preoccupied with the political craziness on the other side of the Atlantic, I haven’t paid much attention to the Tory leadership race. But I couldn’t help but notice today that, in a leaked video, Rishi Sunak boasted to Conservative Party members in Tunbridge Wells that he was prepared to take public money out of “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns. I’m not sure whether this will help - or hinder - his chances of becoming Tory leader, since the outcome will be decided by about 200,000 fee-paying party members: 97% white, half aged over 60, mostly male residents of southern England. So much for "levelling up".
Licenced today: a bus negotiating the narrow road through the village of Corfe Castle, in Dorset…
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