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Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Tories shouldn't write off 'Trussonomics' yet

According to a recent YouGov poll, 62% of them want Truss for leader, giving her a colossal 24-point advantage over Sunak

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Truss plans to cancel hikes in employment tax and corporation tax, while taking “environmental levies” off energy bills

Martin Ivens | Bloomberg
The contest for the Tory leadership may have weeks to run, but elite opinion has already plumped firmly for Rishi Sunak, former chancellor of the exchequer and Goldman Sachs banker, as its choice.
 
The Times of London endorsed Sunak on Thursday. The Financial Times and The Economist can be expected to follow. This is a mixed blessing for a candidate who is taken to represent orthodox Treasury opinion. 

By some strange alchemy, Sunak, whose support for Brexit began when he wrote a school essay at 16 denouncing the European Union, has also become the darling of the 2016 Remainers. Meanwhile,