Conservative leadership race: Final five runners clash over tax, trans rights and Boris Johnson's honesty in TV debate

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The final five candidates in the Conservative leadership race have clashed over their tax plans in a fiery first TV debate

It was the first of three TV debates the competitors will face in the race to become the next Tory leader and the next prime minister of the UK.A snap poll from Opinium on who performed best put Mr Tugendhat as the winner with 36% of the vote, followed by Mr Sunak on 24%.But Mr Sunak has led each round of voting among Tory MPs so far, and Mr Tugendhat has been at the bottom.

The final two leadership hopefuls will emerge by the end of next week and then face a summer of hustings - with Conservative Party members getting the chance to decide who should become the next prime minister.

She said:"We need to be bold, we need to do things differently, we need to cut taxes, we need to unleash growth, and we need to unleash the potential of all of the people across our great country." Many of the candidates who had voted for the rise in National Insurance, including Ms Truss, promised to scrap it if they got into power, but Mr Sunak insisted he would stand by the measure, despite it not being as"politically convenient" conviction.

But Ms Badenoch, who like Ms Truss wants to pause green levies, said"you don't necessarily" have to cut public services to fund tax cuts"if you have the growth".said:"Britain doesn't need another prime minister incapable of being straight with the British public. But the Tory wannabes all lined up to offer billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts without saying whether the money would come from more borrowing or more cuts to public services.

 

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Squabbling children. When will our MP's grow up? They have no idea and will not deliver on anything they said.

Interesting use of the word ‘clashed’. Seen more anger at a church tea when Thelma took the last salmon sandwich that Doreen had been eyeing up 🙄

Why are we seeing these people on TV, we don’t vote for them , all we are doing is going down the Yanks way of political disaster, just look at there guns laws, this should always be behind closed doors

The weakest links 🤧.

Liz truss’s skin peels off to reveal…

they have done a hatchet job on mordant ... dirty tricks.. welcome to Johnsons legacy.... just as corbyn left the Labour party // TRASHED!

Tory fantasy tax cuts. They think it’s the 80s with all the state assets available to sell off to cover the failure of that policy.

Can any of them answer the question; What is a woman?

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