Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss compete for Tory members’ support in Cheltenham leadership hustings – UK politics live

The two candidates are bidding for support from Conservative party members ahead of the final vote for the next PM

Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, has used an article in today’s Guardian to propose that the government should halt the increases in the energy price cap planned for later this year and next year and, if necessary, take energy companies into public ownership to ensure that they keep prices down.

Alongside the Lib Dem plan, with which it has some similarities (they also want a price cap freeze, and more money raised through a windfall tax), it is the most radical and ambitious proposal on the table to tackle the energy bills crisis.

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