Truss Scraps Regional Pay Plan After Backlash From UK Tories

  • Conservatives accuse Truss of abandoning ‘levelling up’ agenda
  • Truss had proposed aligning pay to regional living costs

Liz Truss

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Liz Truss ditched her plan to align UK public sector pay to regional living costs following a furious backlash from Conservative MPs who said it reneged on the party’s electoral promise to level up economic opportunity nationwide.