Tory leadership: Sunak wants handouts to tackle cost of living while Truss rejects ‘Gordon Brown economics’

Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak offered opposing views on how to tackle rising bills amid the cost of living crisis at a hustings on Tuesday, 9 August.

While the foreign secretary rejected giving handouts to people in "Gordon Brown economics," the former chancellor said that direct support was needed as tax cuts wouldn't help everyone.

"Tax cuts alone are not much good if you're a pensioner who's not earning... [or] if you're working... on the national living wage," Sunak said.

Conservatives should "help people have more of their own money," Truss said.

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