UK: Britain's foreign secretary and prime ministerial candidate Liz Truss has said that if elected, she will redirect billions of pounds from the National Health Service (NHS) to social care to free up space in hospitals.

“I believe this [£13 billion] should go to the local authorities to deal with the very real issues in social care, because the problem we have now is people in NHS beds who are better off in social care beds. Will be," Truss said. Tuesday night during the UK leadership debate hosted by Times Radio in Birmingham.

According to Truss, people working in the NHS say the organization suffers from a lack of bureaucracy and local decision-making rather than a lack of funding.

Truss's electoral rival, former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak, had previously implemented a national insurance tax hike, with £13 billion ($15 billion) set aside for NHS funding.

Truss and Sunak are the two remaining candidates in the race for the premiership election, which began on 7 July with the resignation of outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The final round of voting in the Conservative leadership election will take place in early September. During the final round, all party members - approximately 200,000 people - will vote for the winner from among the two finalists. Ballots will be sent by post. Johnson's replacement will be named on September 5.

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