Tory leadership: Defence Secretary Ben Wallace endorses 'authentic' and 'honest' Liz Truss in race for Number 10

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Defence Secretary BWallaceMP says walking away from cabinet at a time of crisis was not the 'right course of action', adding if Rishi Sunak and others didn't want Boris Johnson to be PM 'there was other ways to do that'. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

"So I looked at their performances, I looked at them in the hustings, but I also know them both.

Mr Wallace added that"what you see is what you get" with the foreign secretary which is what he believes the public want more than ever at this moment. "She is the only candidate that did nearly two years in the Treasury as the chief secretary of the Treasury. That's the number two position. It attends cabinet. It's incredibly important. The bookkeeper of the country, she did that job in the Treasury."That's a broad experience that I'm afraid Rishi doesn't have. Yes, he's been in the chancellery, but he doesn't have that broad experience.

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