Starmer: Allocation of towns fund cash "looks fishy"

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has suggested people could think the way the towns fund cash is being allocated "looks fishy". He told reporters on Thursday: "We have no issue with areas getting funding, of course we need funding across the whole of the UK...But it has got to go in properly, to the areas that most need it, and it has got to go in in a transparent way." Speaking during a visit to the Royal Derby Hospital, Mr Starmer said: "If you end up with a list of 45 areas where the funding is going in and, by coincidence, 40 of them are where there is a Conservative MP, most people would say 'what's going on here, this looks fishy'." .