🔴 Liz Truss has made two major pledges during the first public Tory leadership hustings, as the five candidates battle it out to become the next UK prime minister.
Several of the other candidates also promised tax cuts, but they didn’t go beyond anything that they had already pledged.
Kemi Badenoch said that she is “commited” to lower personal and corporate taxes and also suggested slashing fuel duty.Tom Tugendhat and Ms Mordaunt also vowed to slash fuel duty, with the former pledging to cut energy costs at home and the latter repeating her commitment to raise the thresholds for lower and middle income earners in line with inflation.
“I think we need to recognise that this autumn is going to be very difficult for people,” she said. “There will be more that we need to do.”The online hustings kicked off at 1pm on Friday, with each leadership hopeful outlining their campaign with a short three minute speech before being asked probing questions by the public.
Candidates answered questions on the cost of living crisis, Ukraine war, the housing crisis and restoring trust in politics.Ms Badenoch said her sense of humour, Mr Sunak said he is too diligent, Ms Truss said sometimes she is “excessively enthusiastic”, Ms Mordaunt makes a joke about her four cats and says she is too much of a team player and Mr Tugendhat said he is too loyal to the army.
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