Tory leadership race: Sunak vows to get ‘tough on China’ and Truss pledges ‘full-fat freeports’
Sky News says THE TORY LEADERSHIP race is in full flow as Rishi Sunak pledged to impose curbs on China, labelling it the “biggest-long term threat to Britain”, and Liz Truss promised to boost UK growth rates with “full-fat freeports”.
While the pair battled over tax cuts last week, and then tried to get one up on each other over tackling illegal immigration over the weekend, Mr Sunak has taken a different policy route this time.
The former chancellor has promised to close all 30 of China’s Confucius Institutes in the UK in a major hardening of government policy on China if he became PM.
The institutes are funded by the Chinese government and are meant to be culture and language centres, but critics claim they are propaganda tools as relations between the West and China worsen.