Liz Truss pledges to level cash scrutiny as she tries to recover from salary disaster

Foreign Secretary to outline plans for Commonwealth Games-sized funding shake-up after receiving boost from Rishi Sunak

Liz Truss will present new plans to shake up the funding upgrade (

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Liz Truss has pledged to review increased funding across the country as she attempts to claw back her public sector salary.

The foreign minister, whose leadership bid received a boost when a video of Rishi Sunak bragging about embezzling money from deprived urban areas, will lay out her plans at the Commonwealth in Birmingham.

This comes days after she was forced to abandon plans which would have seen civil servants outside London and the South East forced to take a pay cut.

Today's blunder saw her tagged 'Leveling Liz' by Labor deputy leader Angela Rayner on Twitter.

Ms Truss, who remains the favorite to succeed Boris Johnson, will present plans to create low-tax, low-regulation 'investment zones' on brownfields.

She says she will review business tariffs and reform remaining EU regulations to support farmers and food producers.