Sky News cancels Conservative leadership debate after Sunak and Truss refuse to take part

Those still in the running to become the next Conservative Party leader are Mr Sunak, Ms Truss, Penny Mordaunt, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat.

A source from Tom Tugendhat's team said he has"never stepped away from public scrutiny and has been the one candidate who has always put himself forward to the media holding an hour's Q&A last week". Meanwhile, the foreign secretary attacked Mr Sunak's record in the Treasury, telling him:"Rishi, you have raised taxes to the highest level in 70 years. That is not going to drive economic growth.

There were further furious exchanges between Ms Mordaunt and Ms Badenoch - who accused the trade minister in the first debate of having pushed a policy of gender self-identification for people who wanted to legally change their gender when she had government responsibility for the issue.

Bring back Boris

How the he'll can rishi sunack and Liz Truss expect to become the next prime minister when they are scared to and have bottled it about having debates

Don't you just love how with the Tories just a month ago, it was 'Boris' this and 'Boris' that. Now they are trying to big up some random candidate, as the best person to lead us out of the mess the country is in.🤔

…the image of the party? Hahaha

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