Sunak and Truss go head-to-head in Tory leadership debate

The two final Conservative candidates will go head-to-head for the first time tonight.

Already their allies have been trading criticisms – both political and personal.

After Rishi Sunak called China the “biggest-long term threat to Britain”, supporters of Liz Truss accused him of having tried to forge closer economic ties with the country while he was chancellor.