Red Wall' and other poorer areas lose £1bn of development cash after Brexit, despite PM's pledge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : During the years of austerity after 2010, poorer regions of England lost almost all economic development funding from Whitehall - prompting fears that EU money would also go after Brexit.
58% : The Brussels grant stream - £1.73bn across the UK in 2018 - funded scientific research centres and business parks, among many other schemes, levering in private finance to boost the public spending.
57% : Some so-called 'Red Wall' areas are suffering potentially bigger losses than the figures suggest, because the Tees Valley, Durham and South Yorkshire were tipped to move into a higher funding bracket, but for Brexit.

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