Rishi Sunak says his greatest weakness is ‘perfectionism’ while banner behind shows spelling error

Rishi Sunak’s campaign to be the next prime minister and leader of the Conservative party has been seen by many to be pretty smooth-running.

However, even the most slick candidates can be caught out by proof-reading errors, as the former chancellor demonstrated today.

During an online leadership hustings hosted by Conservative Home, text underneath a QR code for Mr Sunak’s website contained a glaring spelling error, which seemed to have gone unnoticed by his team.

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