Response to Budget

Last year I wrote to the Prime Minister demanding the transport funding we need to upgrade our railway, roads and buses in West Cumbria.

Ahead of the Budget this week I wrote to the Chancellor demanding that he commit the funding we were promised to improve rural bus services and upgrade local roads and the West Cumbria Coast Line.

We didn’t see a single penny to fund those promises in his Budget. 

The Tories have failed to deliver for West Cumbria for 14 years and now they expect us to believe their promises of jam tomorrow. 

Local people have had enough of empty promises from Tory politicians that disappear once the election has been and gone. 

It’s time for change. It’s time for an MP and a Government with a plan to deliver for West Cumbria.