🔴 Trans rights 🔴 The net-zero carbon target 🔴 Whether or not Boris Johnson is an honest person. These were the key talking points from tonight's C4LeaderDebate.
Here are the key points raised during the hour-and-a-half long debate aired on Channel 4:The candidates were asked to reply yes or no over whether they believed the outgoing Prime Minister was honest.
Ms Truss said Mr Johnson ‘has been very clear that he made mistakes in Government’ but she had taken his explanation for inaccurate statements over partygate ‘at face value’.Ms Mordaunt clashed with Ms Badenoch over past stances on gender identity rightsMs Mordaunt, a former women and equalities minister, said while she had carried out a consultation of the Gender Recognition Act, she had ‘never been in favour of self-ID’.
When asked whether she accepted this, Ms Badenoch, who was equalities minister until she resigned this month, said: ‘I find it difficult to, because when I took over as equalities minister in 2020, the policy that was being pushed was self-ID. She added: ‘We have inflation because of our monetary policy, that we haven’t been tough enough on the monetary supply, that’s the way that I would address that issue.’Mr Sunak also attacked Ms Mordaunt’s ‘double-digit billion pound promises’.
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