Conservative Party leadership front-runner Liz Truss has cancelled a televised interview with the BBC this week, citing time constraints. This has prompted her rival for the role to label her campaign as being without substance and insufficiently robust to stand up to scrutiny.

Truss has been under pressure to confirm that should she win the election, the result of which will be revealed next Monday, she will consider blanket support for the entire country to relieve the concerns over the cost-of-living crisis.

It is understood that Truss favours tax cuts as the most suitable method of reviving the economy, a method that Sunak has labelled as unaffordable.

With less than a week to go before the result is announced, Truss appears to have adopted a defensive position believing that the policies that she has set out have placed her in a winning position.

Sunak will use the time to attack the viability of her proposals, since he has continually been portrayed by his supporters as a safe pair of hands as far as the economy is concerned.