Gb: gaffe cripples Sunak's hopes for a comeback on Truss

(ANSA) - LONDON, AUGUST 05 - Liz Truss: his rival - widely favored in the most recent polls - in the ballot is already in danger of disappearing. among the Tory members of the race for the succession of Boris Johnson as leader of the majority party and future British premier.

The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who appeared yesterday on Sky more confident and credible than his opponent, in particular on the responses to the impending economic crisis, today stumbled upon an embarrassing clockwork video leaked by who knows who on the New Statesman website: a magazine traditionally close to Labor.

    The video, dating back to some time ago, when Sunak was chancellor, appears to have been shot in a meeting with activists and donors held in Tunbridge Wells (Kent), in a wealthy area in the hinterland of London.

There we see the current aspiring prime minister boasting of having transferred - by the Johnson government Treasury - public funds to economically vibrant areas such as Tunbridge Wells, taking them to "depressed" regions deemed unproductive.

    Words that clash with his promises today, as well as with the commitment made by the Tories under the leadership of BoJo since the last elections to guarantee a more equitable distribution of resources among the various territories of the Kingdom for the benefit of those confined for decades in disadvantaged conditions: in name of that so-called "leveling up" whose appeal at the end of 2019 earned the current government formation the winning at the polls of numerous seats stolen from Labor along the former "Red Wall" of deindustrialized and proBrexit north-central England.

    The opposition reacted immediately, according to which the video is "scandalous" and shows "the true face of Sunak" and his party.

While among the pro-Truss Tories, Lord Zach Goldsmith, a loyal Johnson, ready to define that sort of confession of the exchancellor "one of the strangest and most stupid things ever heard by a politician", to increase the dose.

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