Liz Truss has said she rejects the ‘Gordon Brown economics’ of helping people directly with bills as her rival, Rishi Sunak, warned the British people ‘will not forgive us’ if vulnerable households do not get extra help this winter.

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The foreign secretary also accused journalists of framing questions around the energy bill in a ‘leftwing way … What I don’t support is taking money off people in tax and then giving it back to them in handouts. That to me is Gordon Brown economics,' Truss said during an hustings event in Darlington

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