Truss and Sunak to face off in NI Conservative hustings
The 8th stop in the debate tour of the UK takes the candidates to an event outside Belfast today (Wednesday).
The pair contending to be the next Conservative leader (and therefore Prime Minister) will debate in a hustings showdown outside Belfast.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former chancellor Rishi Sunak will take questions from local tory party members, of whom there are thought to be around 600.
Polls have so far indicated that Ms Truss is leading the race ahead of Mr Sunak.
The pair are also set to undertake separate visits in Northern Ireland's capital.
On Tuesday evening, they were both challenged by Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie to set out their positions on the Northern Ireland Protocol.
He said the post-Brexit arrangements "need to be dealt with once and for all because it continues to damage the Belfast Agreement and places a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom".
Ms Truss and Mr Sunak will address Conservative Party members in Northern Ireland who will cast their vote to select the next leader, who is set to be announced on September 5.
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