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The five Tory leadership candidates snubbed even a below-inflation pay rise as they tore furious strips off each other in an ITV debate - where Liz Truss accused Rishi Sunak of causing a recession

ITV hosted a second television debate with the contenders to succeed Boris Johnson as the country’s next prime minister.

The remaining five Tory leadership candidates were clashing tonight in an ITV debate after they took swipes at each other over Brexit, tax cuts and trans rights

Truss says raising taxes will ‘choke off economic growth’

Attorney General Suella Braverman has repeated her attack on Penny Mordaunt over trans rights

The five candidates left standing in the race have traded personal barbs but little in the way of policy promises ahead of a second head-to-head tv debate.

Tom Tugendhat and Penny Mordaunt have both ruled out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights - drawn up after the Second World War. But other Tory leadership candidates are harder to pin down

Intelligent Conservatives must surely know that they should soon change course before their retrograde, fanatical party collides with the rocks, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Tory leadership contender tried to get back on the front foot, saying he'd task a new Brexit department to review 2,400 laws and come up with initial recommendations for "each" of them in 100 days

It was not immediately clear if Tom Tugendhat's promise to expand the HS2 track all the way to Scotland - when currently it will end in the East Midlands and Manchester - was a slip of the tongue

The candidates to become the next British prime minister burnished their right-wing credentials Sunday, as they looked to remain in the race to succeed Boris Johnson. Many of the five remaining hopefuls highlighted issues linked to Brexit and immigration as they attempted to woo fellow Conservative lawmakers ahead of a…