5 Conservative Leadership Candidates Clash Over Tax, Trust, Gender Self-ID

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Five British Conservative leadership candidates hoping to be the next prime minister on Friday appeared in their first televised debate that was mainly focused on tax and spending and trust in politicians.
52% : Sunak defended raising national insurance in April, saying he wanted to make sure the National Health Service is "properly funded."
48% : The Foreign Affairs Committee chair said he would have used the £30 billion underspend in the OVR forecast and that constituents were talking to him about "predictable investment" rather than taxation.
46% : Tom Tugendhat, the only candidate who hasn't held any ministerial job, said he was "surprised" to hear that candidates want to cut taxes as he was "the only one who didn't vote for the rise in national insurance," drawing a round of applause from the studio audiences.
39% : Kemi Badenoch rejected the premise that cutting taxes equals having to cut public expenditure, arguing that "you don't necessarily have to" cut spending "if you have growth."

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