''Austerity has bitten harder in Labour-voting areas than Tory ones, and the £1 billion levelling up fund went overwhelmingly to areas represented by Tory MPs It’s hard to avoid wondering if there’s a whiff of low politics about this''
Is it really that fanciful to wonder whether the repeated failure to put London’s transport on a financially secure footing is motivated in part by a Grayling-esque irritation that the city has for two elections running opted for a Labour mayor? Vote the wrong way, runs the extremely subtle subtext, and this is the result. You can understand the instinctive appeal pork-barrel politics would have for the governing party, in both rewarding voters and quietening fractious backbenchers.
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