Liz Truss has pledged to review levelling up funding across the country - as she attempts to claw back from her public sector pay clanger.
The Foreign Secretary, whose leadership bid has handed a boost when a video of Rishi Sunak bragging about diverting cash away from deprived urban areas surfaced, will outline her plans at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
It comes days after she was forced to abandon plans which would have seen public servants outside London and the south east forced to take a pay cut.