Tory leadership race: Rishi Sunak calls himself ‘common sense’ Thatcherite – as it happened

Former chancellor says UK needs to control borders' and again references Margaret Thatcher

• Sunak would not cut taxes before autumn 2023

In an interview with GB News, Liz Truss was asked if she would keep the expensive wallpaper in the Downing Street flat, installed as part of Boris Johnson's controversial refurbishment, if she became PM. In what is being seen by some as a dig at Johnson, she replied:

I'm not going to have the time to be thinking about the wallpaper in No 10, because we've only got two years until the general election - we need to hit the ground running.