Rishi Sunak

Tory leadership contender Rishi Sunak proudly told party members he had been working to divert funding from “deprived urban areas” towards more prosperous ...

“Levelling up isn’t just about city centres, it’s also about towns and rural areas all over the country that need help too. Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said: “This leadership race is revealing the Conservatives’ true colours. It’s scandalous that Rishi Sunak is openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers’ money to prosperous Tory shires. This is scandalous. Tory figures were divided over the remarks, while Labour said it was “scandalous” that Mr Sunak was “openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers’ money to rich Tory shires”. Rishi Sunak is openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers’ money to rich Tory shires 👇

Teachers at Tory leadership contender's alma mater say they have no recollection of the man who would be prime minister.

And everyone else must bring data to the table.” Another professor, James Van Horne, initially said he had not taught Sunak but later found a record of him enrolled in one of his corporate finance classes. “I have no recollection of ever interacting with him,” Romer told the Guardian. Dozens of his classmates did not respond to a request to share memories, or declined to comment. In place of a “more incremental mindset”, studying at the heart of Silicon Valley encouraged him to embrace “a slightly bigger, more dynamic approach to change”, said the former UK chancellor. After receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, he graduated from its two-year MBA programme in 2006.

A leaked video shows Rishi Sunak claiming that Treasury formulas “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” of the UK before he became chancellor.

That’s what he changed in the green book and he will follow though as prime minister. They said he had changed the rules on government spending to help towns and rural areas also in need of investment. A source in Mr Sunak’s campaign said: “Levelling up isn’t just about city centres, it’s also about towns and rural areas all over the country that need help too. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Labour’s shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said: “This is scandalous. The footage, obtained by the New Statesman magazine, was from an event with grassroots Tories last week.

A leaked video shows the former chancellor claiming Labour had “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” and that “needed to be undone”.

Rishi Sunak faces widespread criticism after a video emerged of the Conservative Party leadership contender appearing to boast about deliberately moving ...

Rishi Sunak, trailing in the two-horse race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, faced criticism on Friday for saying he had previously ...

The context of his comments was not shown. I started the work of undoing that." Party members are voting by post to select either Sunak or foreign minister Liz Truss.

Rishi Sunak, one of the Conservative leadership hopefuls, has sparked cross-party outrage after he was filmed telling party members in Tunbridge Wells how ...