Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak go head to head at Conservative leadership hustings in Cardiff

Conservative leadership contenders, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, are set to go head-to-head in a hustings in Cardiff on from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday. Both candidates will face questions from various Welsh Tory members.

This will be the third hustings of the contest, but the and only one taking place in Wales, with upcoming events set in towns and cities such as Eastbourne, Manchester and Belfast. The new Tory leader will be declared on September 5 and will replace Boris Johnson as UK's Prime Minister.

Only qualifying members at the time of hustings can attend, with the event commencing at 7pm. This latest hustings comes after Liz Truss was forced to perform a U-turn on her plan for public sector workers' pay after facing backlash earlier this week. A poll conducted for YouGov before the U-turn showed she had a massive lead over the former Chancellor with 60% support to Rishi Sunak's 26%.

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The Foreign Secretary announced a "war on Whitehall waste" on Monday, which detailed her plan to save £8.8billion a year by linking public sector pay to the living standard where they worked. In other words, similar jobs could be paid differently salaries depending on their location.

However on Tuesday, the Tory leadership frontrunner backtracked on her plan amid growing pressure. The plan faced criticism from some Conservative members, such as former Welsh Secretary Simon Hart, who said: "Under these plans Wales is worst hit, with 430,000 workers including police officers & armed forces facing a near £3000 pay cut." The former secretary has since abandoned the plan.

In an opinion piece exclusively for WalesOnline, Ms Truss promised that she would work with the Welsh