Penny Mordaunt and Tom Tugendhat have been on Sunday Morning with Sophie Raworth.
Both were quizzed on how they would pay for their plans for tax cuts - Mordaunt says she'd borrow to deal with "day to day costs"
Tugendhat emphasised his lack of attachment to Boris Johnson and said the prime minister's Partygate account was "more fictional than reality"
Mordaunt slams media "smears" about her record on gender self-identification for trans people.
She defends comments she made during the Brexit referendum, when she said Turkey was set to join the EU
Meanwhile, the government's climate tsar has warned about "lukewarm" attitudes to the net zero target during the contest so far.
This evening all five candidates will take part in a TV debate - the second in the contest - at 19:00 on ITV
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