Penny Mordaunt – I’m being smeared over self-ID claims
No Conservative party leadership race is ever without drama. With the first TV debate now under their belt, the five candidates are fending off scrutiny not just from the opposition and the media, but from each other. One of the biggest rifts from Friday’s debate was when Penny Mordaunt denied that she had ever been in favour of self-identification for transgender people while she was equalities minister. Her rivals, Kemi Badenoch and Liz Truss, suggested this was not true, and leaked documents reported in the Sunday Times today appear to back this up. Speaking to the BBC’s Sophie Raworth, Mordaunt sought to defend her record:
The UK could not have stopped Turkey joining the EU
Raworth also bought up a claim made by Mordaunt during the 2016 Brexit referendum. On the Marr programme, Mordaunt had argued that the UK did not have the power to veto Turkish accession to the European Union:
Suella Braverman – Penny Mordaunt is woke
Suella Braverman told Times Radio’s Carole Walker that she believes Penny Mordaunt is ‘woke’ over her previous stance on self-identification for trans people. The Attorney General, now backing Liz Truss, said ‘we should call it out for what it is’. Read more on Braverman and Mordaunt’s trans row here.
Iain Duncan Smith – Sunak has failed to control inflation
Interviewed by Sophy Ridge, the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who is backing Foreign Secretary Liz Truss for the top job, took aim at Rishi’s Sunak’s policies to control inflation:
Dominic Raab – You can’t borrow your way out of inflation
The Deputy Prime Minister, who is a confirmed Sunak supporter, put the case in favour:
I wasn’t winking at Angela Rayner
Rabb also cleared up who he was winking at, during his last outing at the despatch box at Prime Minister’s Questions:
Bridget Phillipson – Labour isn’t scared
And finally, Ridge asked the Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson for her take on which of the five candidates Labour has the most to fear from:
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