Both candidates for Prime Minister tonight refused to freeze Brits’ energy bills as Liz Truss was accused of “moral failure” in a vicious blue-on-blue.
Rishi Sunak laid into his rival’s plans to cut tax and green levies off bills, saying “millions of people are at the risk of being tipped into destitution”.
In a devastating attack on the likely next PM at a hustings in Perth, Scotland, he said failing to top up the plan “would be a moral failure.