The MPs who will benefit from George’s marvellous marginals medicine

‘The biggest, boldest and most far-reaching roads programme for decades’ — or the biggest, boldest marginal constituency programme? George Osborne has magicked up £15 billion for 84 new roads, some 100 overall improvements, totalling 1,300 miles of new lanes across the country.

Unsurprisingly for an overtly political chancellor like Osborne, a majority of these roads will benefit marginal constituencies. The Telegraph has figured out all of the MPs who will benefit from the road spending and has calculated as many of 2/3 of the proposed improvements will help marginal constituencies. These are the most marginal Tory seats who will benefit  from George’s marvellous marginal medicine:

A34: Nicola Blackwood

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£50 million pounds of improvements to the A34 in Oxfordshire will benefit the Conservative MP Nicola Blackwood in Oxford West and Abingdon. She won her seat from Liberal Democrat Evan Harris at the last election with a 0.3 per cent majority. Conservative MPs Richard Benyon in Newbury and Ed Vaizey in Wantage will also benefit from the improvements to the A34 but both have 20 percent+ majorities.