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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 28 July 2022 - Truss’s promises akin to fantasy
Description: The contest to be the next Prime Minister continues to move further away from policy and looks like being fought more on personality. It is unclear whether either candidate is comfortable with the way in which their teams are portraying them, but they are allowing the mudslinging to continue.
With Rishi Sunak continuing to trail Liz Truss in polls of Conservative Party members, the best they were able to come up with yesterday was to label her economic programme as fantasy.
It is true that Truss’s promise of tax cuts and where the funding for them will come from do...