Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have ruled out freezing energy prices by claiming it would be an expensive, short-term fix that would fail to solve the underlying problem with soaring energy costs.
Questioned on a variety of topics at the seventh of 11 Conservative party hustings in Perth, Scotland, Sunak laughed when receiving a question about rethinking the government’s plan to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda, and Truss did not deny saying in 2019 that UK workers need 'more graft', as a recording leaked by the Guardian reveals
Sunak and Truss rule out freezing energy prices at leadership hustings