Shameless Tories have handed 83% of a £610 million boost for struggling towns to areas that only have Conservative MPs.
Ministers have been repeatedly forced to deny funnelling ‘towns fund’ cash into their own seats and target constituencies in a bid to bribe voters.
But of the latest list of 26 towns benefiting from the fund, only four are represented by MPs of any other party.
In March Rishi Sunak was forced to deny “pork barrel politics”, after the previous list of 45 towns getting £1 billion in communities cash, included 40 with at least one Tory MP.
And a National Audit Office report released in July revealed 61 of the 101 towns in the first list, announced in 2019, were chosen by ministers led by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick - and all but one of these were either Tory-held seats or targets.
Meg Hillier, chair of the powerful Commons Public Accounts Committee, accused the Government of "cherry-picking" which areas received funds.
Hartlepool, which elected a Tory MP for the first time in decades, will get £25 million to spend on a Health and Care Academy and a Civil Engineering Institute.
Redcar, which elected a Tory for the first time ever in 2019, will get £25m.
And the seaside town of Hastings, which retains a Tory MP despite Labour making inroads on the local council, will get £24.3 million to spend on a "low carbon centre of excellence" to provide new commercial space, as well as on renovations to the castle.
Mr Sunak has previously denied targeting Tory seats, claiming the grant payments are based on an “index of economic need, which is transparently published I think, actually by [the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government] and based on a bunch of objective measures.”
An MHCLG Spokesperson said: “The selection process for the Towns Fund is comprehensive, robust and fair, based on factors including income deprivation, skills, productivity and investment opportunities. All towns chosen are in the more deprived areas in the UK.
“The investment in these towns across the country will galvanise businesses and communities to boost the local economies and improve the lives of people in their areas.”
