🔵 Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are taking part in the eighth official Conservative leadership hustings event in Belfast.
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🔵Liz Truss is now on stage in Belfast.
The Foreign Secretary began by highlighting the importance of the Union and Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom.
🗣️Ms Truss said: "I want our family to stay together and never ever split up"
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❓Liz Truss is now facing questions.
Asked how long it could take for the Government's Northern Ireland Protocol Bill to become law, she said:
"It might take time to get this Bill through the House of Lords but... I am determined to get it done quickly"
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🗣️One audience member asked Liz Truss if the UK could impose sanctions on China if it invaded Taiwan.
Ms Truss said that China is "becoming increasingly assertive".
She said the UK would be wise to respond to Beijing as part of the wider G7 group
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🔵Rishi Sunak is now on stage to deliver his opening speech.
Mr said that he believes in hard work and that the "birthright of every child is a world class education"
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❓Rishi Sunak is now facing questions.
Mr Sunak was asked how he intends to sort out issues with the NHS.
The former chancellor said that "we have to be prepared to be bold about the NHS" as he stressed the need to make it more efficient
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🗣️Rishi Sunak said that he would be "much tougher on our welfare system to get people off benefits and into work".
"If there are hours to do, if there is a job going, people should have to take the job as opposed to just being able to stay on benefits"
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🔵The Belfast hustings has now finished.
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