Tory leadership BBC debate: Sunak vs Truss
On Monday night, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss went head-to-head in a live TV debate to win over voters to succeed Boris Johnson.
It was a volatile and heated debated, littered with interruptions, conflict and battles over the economy, taxes, the UK’s relationship with China, Brexit and education. A full breakdown of the statements made by both sides has been independently fact checked and broken down, and can be found in full here.
The BBC has also been accused of displaying Conservative bias following the broadcast of the debate, but rejected all claims stating that it was under “no obligation to give parity of coverage” to other political parties despite the broadcaster’s impartiality rules.
Headlines Tuesday morning where primarily divided into three camps: team Sunak, team Truss, and team ‘the Tories can’t do anything right and they’re both a bad idea’.
Starmer says Tories have ‘lost the plot’ as Truss and Sunak teams trade blows
Hectoring, domineering’ Sunak knows he went too far in debate with Truss, says Brexiteer
Boris Johnson will be ‘permanent nightmare’ for next Tory PM, warns Hague
Sunak accused of ‘mansplaining’ as blue-on-blue attacks escalate – with odds still favouring Truss
Truss and Sunak tear into each other in a debate devoid of dignity
Policy watch: Where Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak stand on the key issues
What is mansplaining? Meaning of the term explained and why Liz Truss’s camp accused Rishi Sunak in the debate
Bitter Tory rivals get personal: Sunak and Truss ignore pleas from party grandees to end ‘blue on blue’ hostilities in TV debate
The Times
Tory TV debate stokes leadership contest’s acrimony
Blue on blue warfare: You’ll lose use the next election
Metro
Truss vow to curb militant unions: As rivals clash in fiery TV debate that can only have cheered Labour, Liz unveils blueprint to stop strikers crippling UK
Daily Mail
You can watch the full debate on the BBC iplayer here.
