Liz Truss supporters have hit out at Rishi Sunak for his “extremely aggressive” approach during the head-to-head Tory leadership debate last night.
When probed on whether the former budget chancellor was “mansplaining” during the debate, Simon Clarke MP said: “He was certainly extremely aggressive in the early moments of the debate.”
The Treasury chief secretary added: “There was genuine frustration at the tone which Rishi struck in the opening 20 minutes or so of the debate and the way he kept interrupting Liz when she was trying to set out her side of the story.”
The criticism came as Mr Clarke admitted Ms Truss’s much-criticised £30bn-plus of unfunded tax cuts might led to public spending cuts in her promised emergency budget.
Meanwhile, Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer has said the remaining two candidates were talking about “clothing and earrings instead of the health service”. during the debate, saying: “If ever there was an example of a party that’s absolutely lost the plot, lost any sense of purpose, it was that debate last night.”
