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The spending ride when it comes to how to tackle the cost of living crisis continues to

rumble on.

Later today, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will appear for red wool hustings, but before we

get to that, it's about Rishi Sunak's been vowing more support for energy costs.

Can you bring us up to date post there's truss as no handout comment at the weekend as

to what exactly both camps are proposing if anything?

Yeah, so it's definitely even though we've got a month left of what looks like a contest

for the foregone conclusion, it's definitely heating up in terms of the fighting between

the candidates over the cost of living.

And Rishi Sunak has today said that he will seek government efficiency savings to provide

more help for people with their energy bills.

This is after bickering yesterday between the Sunak and Truss camps about whose plan

was better, whether it was tax cuts that would help people with the cost of living because

they could keep more of their money, or whether it would be what Liz Truss has described

as handouts.

And that's something that the Sunak can power more sympathetic to, just saying that it's

sort of inevitable that there's going to have to be some kind of targeted support, and

the welfare system is much more targeted than the tax system in this regard.

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