Tory leadership race: Sunak’s proposed temporary VAT cut on fuel bills ‘wrong’ if allowed to become permanent, says IFS – live

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Liz Truss, the foreign secretary and frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest, has said she would order the police to cut homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime by 20% from 2019 levels by the end of this parliament. Danny Shaw, the former BBC home affairs correspondent, says such a generalised target is unrealistic.

This is from ITV's Anushka Asthana, who has dug out what Rishi Sunak said in the Commons in February when he explained why he was opposed to calls (from Labour, and some Tory MPs too) for a cut in VAT on fuel bills.