Whistle-stop tour of PM in northern England regions mirrors past Tory efforts at ‘politics in the raw’
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Rishi Sunak flew to the north of England on Thursday, on a 14-seat RAF jet to show voters there that he understood the cost-of-living crisis.
The prime minister travelled from Accrington, to Morecambe and on to Hartlepool, on a whistle-stop tour aimed at promoting the government’s “levelling up” agenda but which also foreshadowed what could be a long election campaign ahead.
