The Tory leadership hopeful will make a desperate bid to claw back lost ground by matching rival Liz Truss s pledge to slash taxes to ease the burden on millions of British families.
In an increasingly bitter battle to replace Boris Johnson and enter No10 the two rival camps spent the weekend tearing into each other to paint the other as a dangerous liability.
The two candidates vying to be Britain s next prime minister will face off in a TV debate Monday, after both sought to woo the Conservative Party s right-wing base by backing a controversial plan to deport some asylum-seekers to Rwanda.