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A summary of today's developments
- At the third hustings in Cardiff, Liz Truss said she wants to “extend” the government’s contentious Rwanda migration policy “to more countries” in an attempt to stop small boat crossings. The foreign secretary also told the audience she would increase economic growth first by “getting rid of all EU laws” still in place by the end of 2023.
- On Liz Truss’s public sector pay U-turn, Rishi Sunak said he is “glad she U-turned on that policy” and says it would have cut the wages of half a million workers in Wales. Truss blamed “the media” for having “misinterpreted” her £8.8 billion policy to cut public-sector pay outside London that she abandoned after criticism from Conservative colleagues.
- Sunak’s flagship policy in Wales of introducing two new freeports in the country was met with muted applause.
- Sajid Javid has backed Liz Truss to become the next Conservative leader. The former home secretary believes Rishi Sunak’s economic plans would lead Britain “sleepwalking into a high-tax, low-growth” economy and suggested his refusal to cut taxes risked Britain becoming a “middle-income economy” with a loss of “global influence and power”
- A new poll by ConservativeHome finds Liz Truss is most likely to become the next prime minister, with 58% of those asked backing her. Rishi Sunak has the support of 26% and 12% are undecided.
- Parliament has taken down its newly created TikTok account after Conservative MPs sanctioned by China raised concerns about the social media platform’s data security.
- A YouGov poll conducted for the Times found that Conservative party members still believe Boris Johnson would make a better prime minister than the two leadership contenders, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. Asked who they thought would make the better prime minister, Truss leads Sunak by 58% to 29%. But throwing Johnson into the ring shows him winning, with 40% saying he would make the best PM, to Truss’s 28% and Sunak’s 23%.
