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good evening and welcome to bbc news. the contest to become the uk s next prime minister is reaching its climax tonight with the last leadership hustings in london. for the last six weeks conservative party members who will have the final choice have been listening to the contenders, foreign secretary liz truss and former chancellor rishi sunak. the voting closes on friday and by next tuesday the queen will appoint one of them as herfifteenth prime minister though in a break with tradition this will take place at balmoral and not at buckingham palace. in the past hour the two candidates have been setting out their stall to party members at tonight s event hosted by lbc. we all know that we face difficult times. we have the appalling war in ukraine perpetrated by putin, we have an energy crisis, we have the aftermath of covid. and we have had two decades of relatively low growth in this country. so what we can t have is business as usual. we need to be bold and we need ....