Neither Liz Truss nor Rishi Sunak will “take their eye off the ball” as Prime Minister when it comes to levelling up the North East, the Chancellor has promised.
The two remaining candidates to take over in Downing Street have been urged not to ditch the Government’s pledges to narrow the North-South divide – with Labour claiming that Boris Johnson’s flagship policy is “dead”. Ahead of the pair clashing in a televised leadership debate on Monday night, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defended their levelling up credentials.
Mr Zahawi, who was put in charge at the Treasury after Mr Sunak’s dramatic resignation, said on a visit to Newcastle on Monday that “the mission remains the same, both candidates are committed to it”.
