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This Is Why

Sunak and Truss: The battle for Number 10

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tory leadership rivals, former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, faced some tough questions on Thursday evening - from Sky’s Kay Burley and an audience of undecided party members - on why they should be Britain’s next prime minister.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, Kamali Melbourne gets reaction from some of those involved in the special programme, plus analysis with Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates and our political correspondent Tamara Cohen.

Producer: Soila Apparicio
Podcast promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth

Transcript

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0:00.0

One of them will be our next Prime Minister.

0:06.5

Liz Truss

0:07.6

Well, I've changed my view on that.

0:10.9

Rishi Sunak.

0:12.2

It came to a point where the government was on the wrong side of an ethical problem that

0:17.3

I could not defend.

0:19.0

And as the Conservative Party leadership goes on, they've come to Sky News to answer questions,

0:24.0

including from the people who vote to decide.

0:27.3

How important is it to balance the books?

0:30.8

And from Skies K. Burley.

0:32.7

Are you confident that you'll be able to avert a recession by the end of the year?

0:35.8

I'm Kamali Melbourne, and on this Sky News Daily, the key moments and analysis of what they said

0:41.0

and possibly what they didn't say.

0:44.7

We got together our deputy political editor Sam Coates and our political correspondent Tamara Cohen

0:50.1

to have a debrief. Let's explain what happened. It all started with a coin toss.

0:55.0

Ladies first, heads or tails? I'll go for tails, Kay. Never fails is what they say.

1:00.3

Let's see. Tails never fails. Do you want to go first or second? I want to go first, please,

1:05.7

there we go. Liz Truss is first. Okay, Sam, Tamara, let's start by describing the setting. Basically, we had

1:13.4

over 60 undecided Conservative Party members in our audience. So it was a genuine test of who they

1:20.1

thought did better in a crucial week because the ballot papers have just gone out or about to go

1:25.0

out. So they are all making their minds up. Your thoughts on then

1:28.2

having, not having the two candidates go head to head, but having it in this kind of setting.

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