follow accusations last autumn that the Conservatives were ‘pork barrelling’ ahead of the eventual December election, allegedly targeting public cash at seats in which they needed to win votes.
Boris Johnson has previously dismissed such suggestions as ‘cynical’ and insisted the money was awarded on merit.The £3.6bn ‘towns fund’, a key Conservative policy in the election, was originally proposed by the Prime Minister last summer as a way to boost places that needed extra social and economic support with one-off cash injections.Over the following weeks ministers chose 101 towns to be offered the chance of bidding for up to £25m each, or in ‘exceptional’ cases £50m, based on a ranking of places initially drawn up by civil servants in the.
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