Pro-Brexit John Mann believed creating funds for leave-voting areas would appeal
Labour MPs have publicly disagreed on whether they should consider supporting Theresa May’s revised Brexit deal in return for a “transformative” package of investment targeted at mining communities and other former industrial towns.
One pro-Brexit backbencher, John Mann, said he was in talks with civil servants about creating a multibillion investment fund aimed at leave-voting areas following a meeting he and a group of 25 MPs had with the prime minister a fortnight ago.
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