Rishi Sunak has warned Tory leadership rivals against making unsustainable tax cut pledges just to win elections, as Liz Truss fights to make up ground in Thursday afternoon’s second round of votes in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister.
Having emerged as the frontrunner in Wednesday’s ballot of MPs with the support of a quarter of all Tory MPs, Sunak insisted he was the candidate who would be best placed to beat the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, at the next general election.
