Liz Truss has pulled out of an interview with veteran BBC journalist Nick Robinson due to air on Tuesday.
The Tory leadership frontrunner’s team said she could “no longer spare the time” to take part in the one-to-one interview, which was scheduled for 7pm on Tuesday.
Truss, a wooden performer at best, ducked a Channel 4 News interview with Andrew Neil earlier in the campaign and having secured her place as favourite to be declared Tory leader next Monday she has backed out of the BBC show.
Truss’s rival in the race for No 10, Rishi Sunak, sat down with Robinson earlier this month.
According to the BBC Truss’s team said she can no longer spare the time to appear on “Our Next Prime Minister”.
The BBC press team added: “We regret that it has not been possible to do an in depth interview with both candidates despite having reached agreement to do so,” the press team said in a second tweet.
The candidates will go head-to-head again in the final official hustings of the Tory leadership race on Wednesday. The ballot of Conservative Party members closes on Friday, with the winner to be announced on September 5.
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