Rishi Sunak gives speech to Tory faithful in Margaret Thatcher's hometown
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Rishi Sunak gives speech to Tory faithful in Margaret Thatcher's hometown

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Tory leadership contender Rishi Sunak has hit out at his rival Liz Truss over her previous stance as a Remainer and her tax policies. Making a point: The former Chancellor was speaking at Vaculug tyre specialists at Gonerby Hill Foot, Grantham He was with wife Akshata and daughters Krishna and Anushka for the engagement Both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak's campaign for Number 10 continues this weekend, with the leadership rivals offering eye-catching policy proposals to entice Tory party members. The whittling down of the Tory leadership contenders to just two this week marked the beginning of the next stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson, with Truss and Sunak now tasked with wooing the grassroots Tory party members who will vote for the next prime minister. Ms Truss, the former Remainer, said that if elected she will set a 'sunset' deadline for every piece of EU-derived business regulation and assess whether it stimulates domestic growth Warning against 'privatisation by the back door', he announced plans to eliminate one-year NHS waiting times six months earlier than planned by September 2024, and to get overall numbers falling by next year. Having fought off their competitors this week, the final two candidates are each set to try and persuade Conservative party members that they should be the one to become the next prime minister.

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