Despite the chancellor’s ‘levelling up’ cash, there were few signs of optimism in Pudsey market
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.
