Liz Truss breaks promise to appoint a 'Minister for the North'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPrime Minister Liz Truss has seemingly dropped a key pledge to our region less than 24 hours after moving into Downing Street.
In July, she told northern Tories that she would appoint a 'Minister for the North' with Cabinet level responsibility, but a glance at the final list of appointments shows there is no such minister.
At a backbench hustings with the Northern Research Group of Tories on July 19, Ms Truss along with rival Rishi Sunak agreed to appoint a new minister for the North if they won the leadership race, along with rolling out more devolution and introducing a levelling-up "formula" to ensure "left behind" areas received the Government funding they needed. READ MORE: Everything Liz Truss has said about energy bills help and cost of living But in her maiden speech on the steps of Downing Street yesterday, Ms Truss failed to even mention the phrase levelling up.
And one of her senior backers, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, last night quipped: "I've never been in favour of the phrase, I'm not sure what it told anybody".
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