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But the Observer says the government has been accused of using the funding for poorer areas as a “stunt” to save Boris Johnson’s premiership amid the “imminent” publication of Sue Gray’s partygate report. The Levelling Up announcement prompted an “extraordinary row” the paper says, after it emerged the “new” money would actually be made up of levelling-up funds already announced by the chancellor in his spending review last autumn.

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