Conservative leadership race latest: Liz Truss claims 'we're headed for recession' under Rishi Sunak in fiery TV debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Downing Street insisted the chaos seen at the Channel crossings was not the result of Brexit.
48% : The plan from Ms Truss, seen as the candidate of the Tory right-wing, comes with fresh promises of reducing regulation and cutting Whitehall bureaucracy.
46% : "So these are not scenes that we think are necessitated by leaving the European Union," the spokesman said.
42% : Liz Truss said she would "act immediately" and "reverse the increase in national insurance".
42% : The pair are expected to be quizzed about their policies on tax, the economy, migration and refugees to a live audience of Conservative supporters at a venue in Stoke-on-Trent Central.
41% : "There is no evidence at all that not raising taxes is inflationary."
38% : Rishi Sunak said: "'ve see the amazing change that I've helped to deliver in [Teesside], delivering a freeport, attracted jobs and investment and jobs post-Brexit to an area with new industries, like carbon capture and storage, and vaccine manufacturing.
38% : While Rishi Sunak defended raising taxes, Liz Truss said his plan would "lead to a recession".
38% : She said: "Everybody thinks that putting up taxes at this moment is going to hurt the economy.
36% : Liz Truss claimed Britain was "headed for recession" under Mr Sunak's plans, and raising taxes would make the country "internationally uncompetitive".
34% : The Tory leadership candidate claimed that raising taxes now would make the UK "internationall uncompetitive" and "crashing the economy in order to pay debt back quicker", is a "mistake".

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