Spectator Hustings: Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss
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The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Spectators Conservative Party Leadership Hustings. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Isvah Harbman and I'm going to be joined by the final three contenders in this race to number 10, |
| 0:14.6 | Penny Mordent, Liz Truss and Rishisunak. Now the contest has got rather heated in the last few days |
| 0:20.7 | and so for health and safety reasons we decided to keep the candidates apart and actually grill them |
| 0:25.5 | on the substance of what they were standing for. So you'll hear first from Penny Mordent, |
| 0:30.2 | then from Rishisunak who's joining us down the line and then finally from Liz Truss. |
| 0:35.6 | Do you enjoy? Well thank you Penny Mordent for joining us for our spectator Hustings. |
| 0:41.9 | Please give us your one minute opening bid to be conserved of leader. |
| 0:46.0 | Well I think it's incredibly important that we win the next general election and it's important |
| 0:51.3 | to win elections but the next one is really critical because unless we do we will not lock in |
| 0:59.0 | all the benefits that we have now having left the regulatory orbit of the EU. We won't consolidate |
| 1:06.4 | that position, Labour or a Labour-led socialist coalition will drag us back into that regulatory |
| 1:14.0 | orbit and they will not be able to have the vision that we have to respond to the mandate that |
| 1:20.8 | the people gave us for a new direction for the United Kingdom. Okay thank you. Well let's move |
| 1:26.8 | on to our first topic which is the key dividing line in this contest. Tax cuts, do you propose |
| 1:32.8 | significant tax cuts? How significant and how would you pay for them? So in this contest I think that |
| 1:39.7 | this is not the place to be setting out a new tax policy on things like corporation tax. What I've |
| 1:47.5 | chosen to do is focus on growth and competition. Clearly next April on the current trajectory |
| 1:55.2 | which is set us on we are going to be one of the most uncompetitive nations in the OECD |
| 2:02.3 | and that cannot be allowed to happen. We have to be able to compete so there will need to be |
| 2:07.4 | some changes but exactly what and when is not the issue for this contest. What I've chosen to focus |
| 2:15.2 | on is growth because yes we've got to tackle inflation but we also have to tackle the weak |
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