The Tory leadership race has lurched to the right as Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss battle to win over party members.
Their campaigns spent the weekend trying to outdo each other by promising hardline approaches on issues such as immigration and Brexit.
Amid the vitriol and worrying turn to the right, the two Tories are due to lock horns on the BBC tonight in the first head-to-head TV debate.
Ms Truss and Mr Sunak have been announcing “red meat” policies to win support with Tory members, who will decide the leadership contest.
The two candidates clashed over immigration, although they both committed to Boris Johnson’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan.
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