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 does appear to be based some distance from reality, but it would be more beneficial to attack the policy rather than the person.

Truss’s plans to channel her inner Thatcher and face striking unions head on has drawn stinging criticism of deliberately creating confrontation with rail workers leaders and the threat of General Strike.

There was another one-day strike by rail workers yesterday and a vote that action will continue for as long as it takes. Even though the rail network has been privatized, the Government is still pulling the strings with funding and support linked to not just performance but control of expenditure.

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