Boris Johnson is poised to dash Red Wall voters' hopes he would “splash cash” on former Labour strongholds, a Tory MP signalled today.
The Prime Minister won an 80-seat Commons majority by seizing dozens of seats in Labour's heartlands at last December's general election with his pledge to “level up”.
But Wolverhampton North East MP Jane Stevenson, who ousted Labour's Emma Reynolds, feared the damage to public finances caused by the coronavirus pandemic could thwart the plan.
She told a ConservativeHome/Policy Exchange event: “When we arrived in Westminster en masse last December we had such high hopes of probably 'splashing the cash' policies – I don't think we are going to see that going forward. “I think there are going to have to
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