Shadow levelling-up minister Lisa Nandy slammed the decision to hand a six-figure sum to Lord Gage from the Levelling-Up Fund to repair a track on his estate in leafy East Sussex.
Conservative aristocrat Lord Nicholas Gage, 87, (pictured with his wife), used £300k to level his East Sussex driveway from the government s £4.8billion Levelling Up Fund.
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More than £115million of taxpayers cash was wasted buying hundreds of homes along the section of the HS2 route linking Birmingham to Leeds that was scrapped this week.
At present, a total of 104 out of the 309 council tax districts present families with Band D bills exceeding £2,000. This could increase by 50 to 154 out of 309 districts charging excess of £2,000.