Not only is this kind of broken promise bad for our city, it’s just the kind of ‘say one thing, do another’ stunt that turns people off politics. We had an election in December when no doubt Tory candidate were marching round saying vote for us and we’ll bring x, y and back to Norfolk.

Fewer than three months later, their government has got its feet under the table and is playing divide and rule between cities all of which need this kind of funding to have any chance at all of reducing transport carbon emissions in their areas