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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman.

Isabel, can you start by giving us an update on the Tory leadership contest

written on a blog for Coffee House this morning that it could be the biggest week of the contest so far?

Yes and that's because ballot papers are going out to members this week and they are likely to

open those ballot papers and in the majority vote quite swiftly after that.

And so this is the week where this trust obviously wants to maintain her sort of dominant position

in this contest and Richie Sunack hopes to catch up with her. There's one caveat to that which is

that members, I mean members might be a bit more disorganised, they might be on holiday,

they can also they change their votes if they have already voted by post.

They can go online and vote in the party will only count the vote that receives the closest

to the deadline. But that does rely on Richie Sunack still coming up with something that will

change their mind, a game changing moment. And he hopes I think that his tax pledge today that he's

going to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 16% will be empty saying it's the biggest

tax cutting promise for 30 years. One of the problems, and this is something I've written about

something Fraser's looked at in terms of the sort of number crunching as well, is that this does

take the former Chancellor on to Liz Truss's turf. I mean she has really spent most of this campaign

hunting for as yet undiscovered taxes which she can promise to cut. And for him now to make

this announcement sort of mid campaign does look a little bit as though he's spooked by the level

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