Sunak says Truss’s anti-handout approach to cost of living crisis ‘won’t touch the sides’ – UK politics live

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Good morning. At the end of last week Liz Truss, the clear frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest, gave an interview to the Financial Times in which she appeared to rule using benefits or one-off payments to offer further help people with their energy bills this winter. She told the paper:

Of course I will look at what more can be done. But the way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.

Families are facing a long, hard winter with rising bills.

Yet Liz’s plan to deal with that is to give a big bung to large businesses and the well-off, leaving those who most need help out in the cold.

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