Anas Sarwar has promised a Labour government "will deliver the greatest transfer of wealth and power into the hands of working people”
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Angela Rayner has blasted a Tory levelling up promise as a 'sham and a scam'.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP argued regional inequalities have 'got worse' under the Conservatives, slamming them for having a a "lack of ambition and aspiration and power" behind their promises.
Commenting as she prepares to launch the Labour Party's local election campaign alongside Keir Starmer in the West Midlands, the deputy-leader said said Rishi Sunak had failed to boost left behind areas left with hollowed out public services and transport, in an interview with The Mirror.
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She said: "I think levelling up has been a sham and a scam. I think they identified a problem, which is absolutely correct, the regional inequalities, which we've seen actually get worse under the Conservatives."
Instead she said the scheme had left councils being forced to fork out millions in bids to compete for "pots of money". A Labour analysis also claims the gap in average earnings between London and other parts of the country has grown in every region apart from the South West since 2010.
Asked why voters should now trust Labour to deliver, she pointed to the work of the party's mayors and praised London Mayor Sadiq Khan on projects to tackle child poverty. She said: "What would be transformative instead of them having to frustrate to try and get those powers and get the government to work with them, in a Labour government you're going to have a government that will work with them to make it happen."
On Thursday she will outline plans to give local areas more power over transport, skills and planning to kickstart their economies. Regional mayors will also be
Anas Sarwar has promised a Labour government "will deliver the greatest transfer of wealth and power into the hands of working people”
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