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‘It’s not going to help anyone here’: the Yorkshire town unmoved by Rishi Sunak’s £20m ‘largesse’
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In the aftermath of his budget speech last week, Rishi Sunak sent a tweet trumpeting a £20m investment in transport in the Leeds West constituency. It was designed to goad the local MP and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. But as Reeves pointed out, the money was actually for next-door Pudsey, a Tory seat.
Yet even in Pudsey last week, where the money will be spent on upgrading a main road, there was little support for Sunak’s supposed largesse, given that it comes after a decade of underinvestment.
Janet Walsh, who has lived in the town for 45 years, had little faith that Westminster politicians could really do anything about Pudsey’s problems – and the budget had not given her any more confidence. There were “so many” issues that need to be
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