Conservatives pledge £112.5m to fix Britain’s pothole backlog

• The Conservatives have proposed a £112.5 million plan to address the national pothole backlog, funded by cuts to government communications contracts.
• Their strategy includes creating a single national platform for reporting potholes and providing specialist road-repair machines to local councils.
• Kemi Badenoch stated the Conservatives prioritise road repair, accusing Labour of a 'war on drivers' and inaction regarding potholes.
• Labour criticised the Conservative proposal as 'gimmicks', attributing the current pothole crisis to 14 years of Tory neglect.
• Labour highlighted their own 'biggest ever investment' of £7.3 billion in road maintenance, which includes a new traffic light rating system for councils, with £2.1 billion contingent on council plans.