'Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak say Britain needs to change, but they've been leading it for years'

Mark Steel says Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss don't think Boris Johnson is fit for their cabinet, although 'no one ever objected that he was Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss taking part in Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate (

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The message from the candidates for the post of Prime Minister is clear and inspiring.

They both say, "We have to change everything about the way this country is run.

"Because for too long it's been run by idiots like me. I'm the only person you can trust to fix the disasters of people like me. So let's get rid of people like me, and take me instead."

Liz Truss says she's going to cut taxes because there's a 'consensus among economists' that we need to.

When asked to name these economists, she only thought of one, someone named Patrick Minford from Cardiff University. But there is a consensus among him so that should be enough.

If she becomes Prime Minister, she will ask Patrick Minford of Cardiff University what he would do, and we will, because there is a consensus.

Liz Truss says she will cut taxes

Rishi Sunak said Truss was "dangerous"

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