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After BBC debate against Liz Truss, former chancellor accused of 'mansplaining'

And that is the point that Liz is making. Davis added: “This is a debate to find the prime minister of this country. “It was a pretty intense approach to the early parts of the debate last night,” he told LBC. “When we’re in the Commons we have these comparatively fierce exchanges lots of times, all the time.” Do you believe the tax cuts grow the size of the economy? Do you believe that they are in themselves something which can create more fiscal space by growing the underlying economy?” he told Times Radio.

It comes after they debated live for the first time on Monday night as the two remaining Tory leadership hopefuls clashed in a TV debate.

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Following the debate, City A.M. fact checks the various statements that were made during the discussion.

However, there have been many other changes announced in the system of taxes and benefits that affect how much money working people keep, and receive, from the government. And the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has forecast consecutive contractions in Q3 and Q4 this year. However, the IFS has also noted that Truss has “hinted” she may change the current fiscal rules. It states that “GDP is projected to increase by 3.6 per cent in 2022, before stagnating in 2023”. However, the rise in inflation since then may have affected this figure. On the BBC Today programme on 21 July, russ was asked if her plans would cost £38 billion. Sunak claimed that his plans include the first cut to income tax in 16 years, and that his plans would “deliver tax cuts in this parliament for working people”. “The high-inflation environment means that the freezing of income tax and [National Insurance contributions] thresholds is a much bigger tax rise than originally intended,” the IFS says. It is true that the government’s existing plans, announced in March when Sunak was still Chancellor, include a cut in the basic rate of income tax of 1p in the pound in 2024—by which point it will be 16 years since the basic rate was last reduced in April 2008. As mentioned above, the IFS has said Truss’s proposed tax cuts may cost more than £30bn, and it’s said that without counteracting measures like cuts to overall spending “this would likely result in the current fiscal rules being broken”. Sunak claimed that Truss had promised £40bn of “unfunded” tax cuts, and Truss responded by saying this was “not true”. “Tonight Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss were challenged by an audience of 2019 Conservative voters about the importance of honesty in politics,” Moy said this morning, as he pointed out that “both candidates spoke about the importance of principles, integrity and keeping promises.”

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His performance drew accusations of mansplaining from Truss allies. Ms Truss accused her rival of "scaremongering" on the economy and rebuffed his attacks on her tax plans. She was confident on her hawkish approach to China and put Mr Sunak on the spot by claiming he did not want to stand up to Beijing when they were in Government together. Mr Sunak cited his pandemic record in the Treasury and repeatedly held Ms Truss' feet to the fire over the holes in her economic plans. The ex-Chancellor was confident on the economy and he was prepared to attack Ms Truss repeatedly on her "unfunded" tax cuts plan, which he warned would "tip millions into misery". The PM hopefuls clashed over tax and the economy, China and the environment in a bad-tempered debate where Mr Sunak was accused of "mansplaining" and presenter Sophie Raworth had to intervene to let Ms Truss get her point across.

Political commentators have noted that Rishi Sunak came out swinging with an aggressive performance.

Many viewers noted that Mr Sunak repeatedly spoke over Ms Truss during the debate and found his interruptions condescending. A spokesman for the Foreign Secretary told The Times: “Rishi Sunak has tonight proven he is not fit for office. “To explain something to a woman in a condescending way that assumes she has no knowledge about the topic.”

The former Chancellor is facing an uphill struggle with the Tory members even though opinion polls put him above Liz Truss with the electorate.

By the end of the debate, Mr Sunak appeared to acknowledge he may have gone too far; after all, Tory diehards are generally no fans of blue-on-blue attacks. Many viewers liked what they saw, and a snap Opinium survey gave Mr Sunak a narrow lead over his opponent. Rishi Sunak knows he is in trouble.

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But do you think Rishi Sunak would be a good PM? If she wins, should Liz Truss put him in her Cabinet? So after debates, pledges and campaigns do you think Rishi Sunak would be a good PM? If Liz Truss wins, should she include him in her cabinet? In the BBC debate on Monday, the pair did not hold back in voicing concerns over the other's manifestos.

The former chancellor is outlining policies he would bring in if he became prime minister (Picture: Simon Walker/HM Treasury).

‘If I’m prime minister, I will therefore ask ministers to work with you, with event organisers and with the Department for Trade to support major sporting events and make the most of the fantastic trade and business opportunities around them.’ In Mr Sunak’s letter, seen by The Telegraph, he pledged to instruct Ofsted to assess both primary and secondary schools on whether children are ‘developing good physical literacy’ and getting a ‘rich array of sporting opportunities’. This was in response to a joint letter from the chief executives of the five sporting bodies, which called for the next prime minister to prioritise physical education.

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Do get in touch with anything we’ve missed at [email protected]. The report, published by centre-right think tank Public Policy Projects (PPP), comes as the Conservative leadership debate focuses on tax cuts. This morning, politicians have been sharing their views. Meanwhile, MP David Davis dismissed the suggestion that Rishi Sunak was “mansplaining” to Liz Truss as “spin”. He told Sky News: “Sometimes it’s important to intervene in debates.” Simon Clarke, chief secretary to the Treasury and a supporter of Liz Truss, has said the 7% mortgage interest rates figure brought up in the debate by Rishi Sunak “is not part of Liz Truss’s plans”. We’ve got to recognise that after the pandemic we’re in a different situation financially to the situation that we were in before, and we want a responsible government that says if we’re going to do something we will tell you how we’re going to pay for it.