The Home Secretary Priti Patel has denied that the government is responsible for poverty in the region.
In what could be a “Let them eat cake moment during an interview with BBC North West she said :
“It’s not the government though is it … it’s not, it’s all parts of society and the structures. Local authorities have a role to play, education, public services, which are locally led and locally run.”
Labour Deputy Leader John McDonnell said:
Priti Patel’s claims are yet another example of the Tory Government’s cruelty. Local Government has suffered enormously from vicious Tory cuts. Of course we can blame the Tory Government for poverty.
