Birminghamgot four mentions.DerbyandMerseysidetwo.
During her 45-minute statement to MPs on Wednesday,Rachel Reevesalso squeezed in references toPadeswoodsidings andSouthportpier.
They were far from the only places name-checked.
Whether it was glancing references to MPs’ constituencies or the locations of favoured projects, the chancellor seemed determined to crisscross the country, throwing in names as she went.
Investment in defence “will deliver security… inAldermastonandLincoln,inPortsmouthandFilton, onthe Clydeand inRosyth,” she said.
There would be money, the chancellor rumbled on, for munitions “made in factories fromGlasgowtoGlascoed…StevenagetoRadway Green.”
The nuclear submarine programme would support “thousands of jobs acrossBarrow,DerbyandSheffield.”
Small modular reactors would be made by Rolls Royce, a great British company based inDerby.”
The chancellor praised MPs inBassetlaw,WhitehavenandWorkingtonand the mayor of theEast Midlands, before she turned to the pioneering work taking place inWest Burtonin Nottinghamshire.
Merseyside, Teesside, HumbersideandAberdeenshirewere lauded for carbon capture projects, as were the MPs forGreat GrimsbyandCleethorpes.
British Steel inScunthorpehad been rescued, she said.
Reeves then rattled through a whole rolodex of other towns and cities.
Social homes would be built inBlackpool, Preston, SheffieldandSwindon; new buses would take to the streets inRochdale; new train stations would open inMerseysideandMiddlesbroughand mass transit would be provided inWest Yorkshire.
MPs heard about metro extensions inBirmingham,inTyne and Wearand inStockport.
Doncasterairport was being backed, apparently. As were train lines linkingYork, andLeedsandManchester.
More MPs got a pat on the back – among them, those representingMilton Keynes North,Milton Keynes Central,Buckingham & Bletchley,Lichfield,Birmingham NorthfieldandBirmingham Erdington.
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“And I can tell the House today,” Reeves continued, “to connectOxfordandCambridgeand to backMilton Keynes’ leading tech sector … I am providing a further £2.5bn for the continued delivery of East-West rail.”
There would be new funding forPadeswoodsidings andCardiff Westjunction too.
Reeves said she had listened to the concerns of the MPs forMid-CheshireandRossendaleand Darwenand the mayor ofLiverpoolcity region, Steve Rotheram.
And on it went.
Funding to support the fightback against graffiti and fly-tipping would be given toBlackpool South, Stockport,Stoke Central,Swindon North,Newcastleupon Tyne EastandWallsend.
Not to mentionSouthportpier,Kirkcaldy’s seafront and high street, andPeterborough’snew sports quarter.
“We have expanded the warm homes plan to support thousands more of the UK’s poorest households … including … homes inBradford,RugbyandBlackpool,” she told the House of Commons.
And then, finally, it was the turn of schools. Whether they were inTower Hamlets,Sunderland,Swansea,Bridgend,Enfield,LeedsorWeymouth, there was more money on the way, she said.