According to a YouGov poll, Liz Truss would win the Conservative leadership with characteristic ease, garnering 62% of party members, compared to just 38% for Rishi Sunak
The British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss enters the final stretch of her showdown with Rishi Sunak for the Conservative leadership and the country’s prime minister as the favourite, according to bookmakers.
One day after they were left alone in the race, after she was also eliminated Penny Mordant, the two gladiators presented their program to the press. Both are seen as the best candidates to beat the Labor party, which is leading in the polls in the 2024 general election, largely because of the repeated scandals of Boris Johnson’s government.
But according to a YouGov poll, Liz Truss would win the Conservative leadership with characteristic ease, garnering 62% of party members, compared to just 38% for Rishi Sunak. 40% of respondents also commented that they “have no confidence” in Sunak.
The former finance minister tonight insisted he is in a better position to beat Labor in the general election. “If you look at all the polls we have and understand what they’re saying, it’s clear that I’m better placed to beat Keir Starmer at the next election,” he told LBC television.
Speaking to the popular newspaper Daily Mail, Liz Truss highlighted mainly the “conservative values” and her intention to immediately cut taxes that have risen “to their highest level in 70 years”.
In the morning, in an interview with BBCTruss said she would like “Boris to continue as prime minister” despite the scandals, but she “no longer had the support” of the party in parliament.
From the columns of the Daily Telegraph, which headlines the issue “Trash advantage”, Sunak tries for his part to claim the legacy of Margaret Thatcher from his rival. “I have Thatcherite values, I believe in work, family and integrity. I am a Thatcherite and I would govern as a Thatcherite,” he insisted.
Sunak also promised to push for reforms as radical as those made by the ‘Iron Lady’ in the 1980s “for growth and prosperity in every corner of the UK” but also “to seize the freedoms given to us by Brexit”.
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