Liz Truss has promised to advertise a plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if she becomes high minister on Tuesday.
The Tory leadership hopeful, the favourite according to pollers, told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she'd" act incontinently" to help with bills.
But she offered no details, saying she'd need time in office first in order to finalise exact proffers.
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| Liz Truss is almost universally expected to beat Rishi Sunak to No 10. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters |
Her rival Rishi Sunak said he'd target farther payments at the poorest.
One of the two contenders will be blazoned as the coming Tory leader on Monday, and will replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street the coming day.
They've come under pressure to spell out how they would cover homes with rising bills, as well as give help to businesses, which aren't covered by the domestic price cap.
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Speaking on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Foreign Secretary Ms Truss said action on energy bills would be" vital" for people and the frugality.
She added that farther support would need to go" hand in hand" with a plan to boost domestic energy inventories, arguing the UK had come too dependent on transnational energy prices.
She also defended her plan to reverse April's National Insurance rise, saying it was" ineluctable" those on advanced inflows would profit more, but the move would profit the frugality overall.
Mr Sunak said farther energy payments to pensioners and the low- paid, beyond those he blazoned as chancellor, should be targeted at pensioners and the low- paid.
He has argued his suggested cut to Handbasket on energy bills would also give some help for all.
He also said he could not rule out the prospect of knockouts over the downtime to portion inventories, as the situation was" serious" and" every tool in the toolbox" would be demanded.
" Of course we do not want to be in that situation, but I suppose it's responsible not to rule it out," he added.
The cut to National Insurance is one measure in around£ 30bn of duty cuts Ms Truss has promised to deliver in an exigency Budget latterly this month if she wins.
Pressed on whether richer people would profit further from the cut, she said" The people at the top of the income distribution pay further duty- so inescapably, when you cut levies you tend to profit people who are more likely to pay duty."
But she added" To look at everything through the lens of redivision I believe is wrong. Because what I am about is growing the frugality- and growing the frugality benefits everybody.
" The profitable debate for the once 20 times has been dominated by conversations about distribution. And what is happed is we have had fairly low growth".
Beyond his proposed cut to Handbasket on energy bills, Mr Sunak has taken a different approach, arguing endless duty cuts should stay until affectation goes down.
Mr Johnson's successor will be blazoned at 1230 BST on Monday, before taking office on Tuesday after being formally appointed by the Queen.
In a break with tradition, the winner will travel to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the form, rather than at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen has been suffering from mobility issues and it's understood the change was made to help the need for any last- nanosecond rearrangements.
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