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Hello, I'm Rachel. I'm Freddie and I'm Ben.

And on today's New Statesman podcast, we're assessing the latest in the Tory leadership race

and asking, cost of living, surely some help is coming soon, right guys?

So it's a cliché to say that week is a long time in politics. It does feel that in leadership

race terms, a week is about a year, if we start off looking at what's been going on in the

last seven days, we had a great scoop by our New Statesman deputy political editor Rachel Wemuth

last Friday about where she's seen act. She is currently on holiday taking a well and break

as is a niche, which is why you've got me today. But that was the video that showed

Sinek in Tombridge Wells proudly telling Conservative Party members in that area how he had

diverted or helped to divert leveling up money from deprived urban areas to areas like

Tombridge Wells, which is one of the one of the wealthiest parts of the country.

From all of you, I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure that areas like

are getting the funding that they deserve, because we inherited a bunch of formulas from the

Labour Party that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas, then that needed to be

undone. I started the work of undoing that. I made sure as Chancellor across government,

not only do we increase local government funding. And this video was everywhere. Sinek's team had

to put out a statement on it. It kind of played for the next couple of days. Looking back,

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