Dave:
It doesn't matter at all what Cleverly said. The fact remains that the Tories try to obscure their failures with lies and misdirection.

It does matter when the previous claim was:
What the tories fail to (publicly) mention is that the scheme would be funded by UK Shared Prosperity Funding (so called levelling up), (by SPB).
I was pointing out that it had been clearly stated, by a leading Conservative.

All I was calling for was a little honesty. Perhaps that is hoping too much in a politics thread.