
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak put the economy centre stage on Monday as the two rivals bidding to become Britain’s next Prime Minister prepared for a crunch TV showdown.
Both Tory leadership candidates said they would revitalise London’s economy following the pandemic with the Foreign Secretary insisting that her plan for “full fat” freeports would look to transform the capital and other parts of the country in the same way as the Docklands regeneration in the Eighties.