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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and James Hill.

So the Prime Minister is in Blackpool today laying out the pitch for his levelling up fund

the round two of funds being given out.

Katie, this has been a relatively big day for the levelling up fund because there's been a lot of

criticism back at the government about where they've put the money.

Can you tell us about what's going on?

Yes, so this is a day where there are some winners, 111 winners in total,

and then there were 550 requests.

So if we can use some quick mathematics, James Hill, what is 550 minus 111?

That is 439.

So there are 439 losers and James Hill is doing better when it comes to the really

scenic math challenge than me, and it's worth pointing out that this is cross-party.

So Labour MPs applied for their constituencies.

It's not just Tory MPs and the actual process of much of this is done by the civil service,

you know, the school card, but I think it's fair to say that this has caused a big political

rout, and one that is very much playing out within the Tory party, and that is significant

for a few reasons.

One is the fact that since Richie Cineck became Prime Minister, we've seen multiple compromises

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