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Why Sunak’s garden party boast may still mean levelling-up agenda in name only

New PM doubles down on remarks at garden party about changes that moved funding towards Tory heartlands

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Rishi Sunak’s boast at a Tunbridge Wells summer garden party of undoing Labour policy that “shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas” to give more to regions such as Kent looks likely to haunt him as his commitment to levelling up is questioned.

At Sunak’s first prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, challenged him over the clip, filmed during the previous Conservative leadership race, which seemed to show his pride in diverting money from poor cities to wealthier towns such as Tunbridge Wells.

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