A summary of today's developments
Rishi Sunak told the BBC he would “rather lose” the Conservative leadership contest while maintaining his values than promise “false things that I can’t deliver”. Presenter Nick Robinson concludes the programme by saying Liz Truss is still considering an interview request from the programme and has been unable to fit in a slot in her schedule thus far. Truss had declined to be interviewed by Andrew Neil on Channel 4 last month.
Liz Truss signals Kemi Badenoch would get promotion to cabinet if she became PM.
Liz Truss told GB News she would like to see Britons use Dutch ports more as alternative to French ones.
The Rishi Sunak campaign is now formally accusing Liz Truss of doing a U-turn following her concession that she is considering offering people payments to help them with energy costs. (See 10.11am, 11.40am and 3.45pm). Last week she ruled out giving people “handouts”. A spokesperson for the Sunak campaign said: “This is a major U-turn on the biggest issue currently facing the country.”
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has revealed that, when she met Liz Truss at the Cop26 climate crisis conference in Glasgow last year, one of the main things Truss was interested in was how to get featured in the fashion magazine Vogue. And when Truss learned that Sturgeon had appeared in it twice already, Truss “looked a little bit as if she’d swallowed a wasp”, Sturgeon said.
Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, told BBC Breakfast that the party would be proposing extra measures “very, very soon” on tackling rising energy bills.
This blog is closing now. Thanks for reading.
Updated
Nick Robinson to Rishi Sunak after discussing "a whole series of emergencies" facing the UK: "When you discover who's been running the country for the past 12 years, you're going to be really cross, aren’t you?" pic.twitter.com/VqmcwQYI3r
— Graeme Demianyk (@GraemeDemianyk) August 10, 2022
