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Calls for Robert Jenrick to face probe over 'murky' £25m cash for his own seat

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Labour have demanded a probe into Robert Jenrick after he won £25m from his own department for his own seat. The Cabinet minister's constituency was one of 61 areas hand-picked by his ministers to bid for the Towns Fund, just three months before last year's election.

The Communities Secretary today denied he was involved personally in handing cash to his own seat after Labour blasted the "blatant pork-barrel politics".

Mr Jenrick insisted there was a "robust and fair" methodology adding: "There really is nothing to see here." But he admitted he and a fellow Tory minister each authorised Towns Fund status for the other's constituency.

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