‘Levelling up’? Don’t count on the Tories | Letters
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The new Tory MPs appear to wish to continue with the austerity project, says former MP Liz McInnes, and Ken Veitch sees the damage being done by cuts in children's services
John Harris correctly identifies that, for all this Tory government's warm words about "levelling up" and "the end of austerity", all over the country austerity is nonetheless grinding on (Austerity has cut too deep to 'level up' - the damage is done, Journal, 10 February).
In my former constituency of Heywood and Middleton, the local authority, Rochdale council, has had to make 180m in cuts since 2010 due to central government underfunding. Rochdale council is one of the 20 worst-hit upper-tier local authorities in the country, spending 27% less now than it did in 2010.
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