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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