Tory leadership race live: candidates questioned on tax cuts, net zero and early general election – as it happened

Julie Etchingham moderates the ITV debate between Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat and Penny Mordaunt. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock

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Evening summary

• Rishi Sunak accused his rival Conservative leadership candidates of promoting “socialism” by promising unfunded tax cuts, as the deep divisions in the party over economic policy were exposed in a bad-tempered televised debate. Here is my colleague Peter Walker’s assessment of the five takeaways from the debate.
  

• Labour has nothing to fear from any of the Conservative leadership candidates and their “arms race” of tax cut pledges, the shadow education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.

• The deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, has questioned Liz Truss’s record in government, as the acrimonious Conservative party leadership race that has set cabinet colleagues against each other enters a critical 72 hours.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss taking part in Britain’s Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/PA

Updated at 9.31pm BST