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Rishi Sunak has advised his best weak point is “working arduous” and attempting to be “good”.

Collaborating in a Conservative Party management hustings hosted by Conservative House on Friday afternoon, the candidates to interchange Boris Johnson as prime minister had been requested what their best weak point was.

“Most individuals know I’ve a status for working arduous and getting throughout the small print,” Sunak, the present frontrunner, replied.

“You’ve obtained to ensure in these jobs, particularly within the extra senior you get, you don’t let good be the enemy of the great.”

He added: “What I’m continuously working at is getting that steadiness proper between being throughout the element, understanding each of one thing, and realising I do know as a lot can, I’ve carried out as a lot as I have to on that.”

Answering the identical query, Liz Truss, the overseas secretary, mentioned she had a behavior of being “excessively over enthusiastic”.

“Typically I’ve to rein myself in and try to do a bit much less,” she added.

Truss is hoping to unite the Brexiteer proper wing of the social gathering behind her to be able to tackle Sunak within the closing spherical of the competition.

She is in a bitter battle with commerce minister Penny Mordaunt to complete within the high two, with additional ballots of Tory MPs as a result of happen subsequent week.

Mordaunt mentioned her weak point was her 4 Burmese cats. Kemi Badenoch mentioned hers was folks taking her jokes too critically. And Tom Tugendhat, a former soldier, mentioned he would possibly “discuss in regards to the military a bit of bit an excessive amount of”.

All 5 candidates are as a result of happen in a TV debate, hosted by Channel 4, on Friday night at 7.30pm.