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UK: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to take part in TV debate

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10:42 25 Jul 2022


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The two remaining candidates in the UK Conservative leadership race clash in their first head-to-head TV debate later.

Rishi Sunak's campaign's focusing on China today, with the former chancellor calling the country the "biggest-long term threat to Britain."

But supporters of his rival Liz Truss have called that surprising given how the UK Treasury's recently wanted an economic deal with Beijing.

Joe Twyman from polling company DeltaPoll says the latest stats show the foreign secretary's still in the lead:

"In terms of Conservative Party members, we saw that Liz Truss was actually growing her lead over Rishi Sunak, and so she's over over 60% now."


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