The magazine New Statesman has published a video of Rishi Sunak speaking to voters in Tunbridge Wells in Kent last week.
In the video, we hear him bragging about moving taxpayers’ money from poor, urban areas to wealthy areas such as Tunbridge Wells.
“I managed to change the funding formulas to make sure areas like this get the funding they deserve, because we inherited a bunch of formulas from Labor that pushed the money to poor, urban areas and we had to change that. I started that process,” says Sunak in the video.
– Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard
The reactions have not been long in coming. Even Sunak’s party colleague Lord Zac Goldsmith in the Conservative Party uses fierce adjectives.
– This is one of the strangest and stupidest things I have ever heard from a politician, says Lord Goldsmith.
The Labor side also reacts strongly, reports Sky News.
– Scandalous, thunders Lisa Nandy in the Labor party.
– Rishi Sunak openly boasts that he fixed the regulations to move taxpayers’ money to rich Tory constituencies. This is our money. They should be used fairly and where they are most needed, not as bribes to Tory members. Talk about showing your true face, Nandy elaborates.
Sunak or Truss becomes prime minister
Sunak is fighting with Liz Truss to become Britain’s next prime minister, after Boris Johnson. The two are the only remaining candidates after several screening rounds this summer.
One of them will move into Number 10 Downing Street after the party’s members hold a vote on 5 September.
– PROSPEROUS: Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy are on The Sunday Times rich list. Photo: Ian West / Pa / NTB
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Sunak’s election campaign camp defends the statement and indicates that this is the policy he will pursue if he wins the prime minister’s job.
“When he has traveled the country, he has seen areas outside the big cities that need better bus services, faster broadband or higher quality schools. This is what he will deliver as prime minister,” says a source in his election campaign camp, according to Sky News.
Rishi Sunak and his spouse Akshata Murthy are also in 222nd place on the Sunday Times’ list of Britain’s richest, with an estimated fortune of NOK 8.6 billion.
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