"Conservatives should invest in sports facilities, not close them, to help young people"

England winning striker Chloe Kelly and her triumphant teammates are calling for their glory at Wembley to inspire more girls to play football. Adam Peaty also said the Conservatives should invest more in sport

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Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Adam Peaty's digs against the Tories as sports facilities closed en masse raises fears that future generations will be denied his greatness.

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England winning goalscorer Chloe Kelly and her triumphant teammates express a similar sentiment as they call for their glory at Wembley to inspire more girls to play football.

Without swimming pools, pitches and coaches, and without every school encouraging every boy and girl to develop their abilities, the Tories will repeat the failure of the London 2012 Olympics to create a true sporting legacy.

The warning signs are there again when the amount of money per student spent on education is worth less now than when the Tories took power in 2010.

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Raising interest rates to curb inflation could be as bad a cure as the disease.

Spiking borrowing costs will crucify millions of people with big debts and mortgages, creating even more misery and a new crisis in the cost of living.

We are all about to pay a heavy price for the economic blunders of a Conservative British government burdening Britain with weaker growth, lower productivity and higher inflation than our main rivals.< /p>

Brexit, Covid and Putin's invasion of Ukraine are all factors alongside 12 years of Downing Street mistakes by first David Cameron followed by Theresa May then Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak.

For a fresh economic start, we need immediate general elections.

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