Rishi Sunak vowed not to concede in the Tory leadership contest despite Liz Truss being ahead in the polls and he pledged to “fight incredibly hard ’til the last day” of the campaign.
Liz Truss has refused a Conservative Party member’s request for her to apologise for proposing to link public sector pay to local living costs – reiterating that the policy was “misrepresented”.
Conservative Party member Tom from Gateshead, participating in Sky News’ The Battle for Number 10, asked the foreign secretary and Tory leadership frontrunner to apologise for initially planning to introduce a policy which was “actually quite offensive”.
Ms Truss refused to do this, repeating that the media had “misrepresented” the proposal and that she is “not going ahead with this policy because of the concerns that have been expressed”.
