Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are taking part in the Sky News leadership debate. Photograph: PA<\/p>\n
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will take part in a live televised debate tonight at 8pm.<\/p>\n
Sky News The Battle for Number 10 will see the two leadership hopefuls field questions from a studio audience comprising Conservative party members.<\/p>\n
Truss and Sunak will then be interviewed by Kay Burley.<\/p>\n
The 90-minute live broadcast can be watched on among others Sky News and viewed on Sky News YouTube channel and here.<\/p>\n
Updated at 15.00EDT<\/p>\n
Key events<\/p>\n
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Also during the debate, Truss was asked whether integrity has been lost in the Westminster bubble? <\/p>\n
Truss said: I would make sure we had zero tolerance for bad behaviour and also offer support to MPs.<\/p>\n
She said she would look at the role of the ethics advisor. <\/p>\n
I slightly worry about outsourcing ethics to somebody else, she added. <\/p>\n
During the debate, there was a question on trust. Nadine Dorries says you cannot be trusted, Burley directed to Sunak.<\/p>\n
Boris Johnson deserves enormous credit for what he achieved at the time, he replied. It got to a point when it got too difficult for me to stay. It is simply impossible for a chancellor and PM not to be on the same page on economic policy. <\/p>\n
He added that the government was on the wrong side of an ethical problem and enough was enough. <\/p>\n
Sunak referred to the Chris Pincher scandal.<\/p>\n
It wasnt OK to defend it because it was wrong. We need to bring trust and integrity and decency back into politics.<\/p>\n
George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times, has picked up on Truss response to the windfall tax. <\/p>\n
Updated at 17.10EDT<\/p>\n
Ian Birrell has criticised Sunak for playing the populist card during the debate.<\/p>\n
The is Paul Waugh on Kay Burleys question: Will the real Liz Truss please stand up? It will be revisited, and often, he says.<\/p>\n
Full Fact has posted on Twitter regarding Liz Truss comments tonight about going to fight in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
After technology to measure who the studio audience would vote for between the two candidates crashed, Burley resorts to a show of hands. The vast majority would vote for Sunak. <\/p>\n
Updated at 16.41EDT<\/p>\n
Some more from tonights debate, Burley asked Sunak why so many people have come out in support of Liz Truss and not him? <\/p>\n
Plenty of people who sat around the cabinet table are supporting me, he said. <\/p>\n
He said the Conservative party are all one team, all one family and will come together after the leadership election.<\/p>\n
Updated at 17.12EDT<\/p>\n
Burley asks if he is too rich to be prime minister?<\/p>\n
I think the British public judge people by their character and actions, not by their bank account, he says. <\/p>\n
Updated at 16.43EDT<\/p>\n
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