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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 21 July 2022 - Sunak and Truss to fight out final ballot
Description: The battle to become the Prime Minister has entered its long final straight as Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have become the last two candidates standing.
Both believe that they have a strong case with Sunak pointing to his record as Chancellor of the exchequer, his first Cabinet post to prove his credentials, while Truss believes that she has the strong support of the right wing of the Conservative Party.
The newspapers are building a degree of antipathy between the two into their rivalry, mostly driven by their performance at the second of the televised debates and their apparent refusal...