Irish Examiner view: Truss and Sunak set for a bruising campaign

The contenders to lead the British Conservative Party ought to recall the words of Margaret Thatcher and Alan Clark

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. By all accounts there is little love lost between the two final candidates to lead the British Tory party. File picture: PA

Ahead of the forthcoming decisive battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party — and the key to 10 Downing St — the two remaining candidates in the battle, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, might recall the words of the late Margaret Thatcher.

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding,” Thatcher said in 1975, “because I think, well, if they attack me personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”