Jake Berry cuts into Rishi Sunak's boasts about taking money from deprived areas

Rossendale and Darwen MP Jake Berry issued a brutal attack on Tory leadership contender Rishi Sunak over a leaked video in which he appeared to proudly speak of diverting funding from “deprived urban areas”.

In the video, Mr Sunak told Tory supporters: “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. I started the work of undoing that.”

Mr Berry, having first backed Tom Tugendhat, is now supporting Liz Truss in the final shortlist of two candidates. His comments came as Tory in-fighting during the campaign became increasingly bitter and were met with equally harsh remarks from the Sunak supporting Redcar & Cleveland MP Jacob Young who cited Mr Berry’s own constituency.

The Sunak campaign defended the remarks, arguing he changed the Treasury’s green book setting the rules for government spending to help towns and rural areas also in need of investment. Speaking ahead of a Tory hustings in Eastbourne on Friday evening, the former chancellor defended his comments, saying he was making the point that “deprivation exists right across our country”.

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