Tory leadership debate: rivals discuss tax, energy, NHS, the green economy and trust in first televised head-to-head – as it happened
The five candidates face off in a televised Channel 4 debate
Penny Mordaunt also rejected the idea that attacks on her for being too woke" on issues such as trans rights could be the issue that ends her bid to replace Boris Johnson.
She told Sky News this morning:
Look at how we're doing in the polls in the country, in London, in Scotland, with young people, with women, with Red Wall, with Blue Wall.
It's not having an impact on my campaign, and it's not having an impact on my parliamentary campaign. And I think the reason for that is that people recognise it for what it is.
I think it is important we don't trash our record, because actually we have done an awful lot of good things.
I care about my colleagues. I have great colleagues and we have to, at the end of this contest, come together as a party.
You can see from my campaign, I'm not engaging in any of that.
I have just been getting on with my job, but I have thought long and hard about what this country needs. I feel really compelled to do this. It would be a huge honour to be prime minister.
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