Who could possibly be surprised at this?
A government fund designed to replace EU grants lost due to Brexit has been criticised as "nothing more than an outrage" that will leave English regions tens of millions of pounds worse off than when Britain was in the EU.
The Conservative's 2019 manifesto promised "at a minimum" to match the average EU subsidy of about £1.5bn a year to help the most deprived parts of the UK.
But details of the government's Shared Prosperity Fund show that it will hand out only £2.6bn over the next three years and will not match the previous EU funding level of £1.5bn a year until 2025.
Isn't that almost absurdly typical of that crew?
Trust Michael Gove to unleash the rhetoric:
The levelling up secretary, said: "The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will help to unleash the creativity and talent of communities that have for too long been overlooked and undervalued."
But that's all it is.
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