World News | Rishi Sunak will beat Liz Truss if UK PM polls are held now, survey finds

LONDON, Oct. 18 (PTI) Former Indian Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will beat his rival Liz Truss if the Conservative Party leadership election is held now. New polls on Tuesday.

A YouGov poll of Conservative Party members found that 55% would now vote for Sunak, 42, if they could vote again, while only 25% would vote for Truss.

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“As the ongoing political chaos in Westminster grabs the headlines, a new poll of Conservative Party members by YouGov Political Research has found that members of the party are deeply remorseful about their decision to elect Liz Truss leader in September. ,” said the YouGov analysis.

YouGov also found that a majority (55%) of members believe that Truss should resign as party leader and prime minister after a series of U-turns, with only 38% believing she should stay.

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The most popular choice to take over the top job at 10 Downing Street remains Boris Johnson, the party’s scandal-hit former prime minister, with 63 per cent seeing him as a good successor and 32 per cent saying he is Their top candidate is Sunak at 23%.

“If Liz Truss succumbed to this pressure and resigned, Conservative Party members would most like to see Boris Johnson brought back in to replace her,” YouGov noted in an analysis of the data.

“A third (32 per cent) said he was the person they would most like to take over, followed by former prime minister and leadership rival Sunak at 23 per cent and defence minister Ben Wallace at 10 per cent,” it said.

A whopping 83% of Conservative Party members said Truss had underperformed as prime minister, with 72% voting for her in the leadership election that ended with her victory more than a month ago. Only 15% thought she was doing well.

Just as Truss apologised for “mistakes” made in the weeks before taking office, her entire tax-cut economic agenda was reversed by new Prime Minister Jeremy Hunt, with calls from different parts of the Conservative parliamentary party Find a way to replace her.

According to the 1922 Commission, Truss was exempt from leadership challenges for at least 12 months. However, her mishandling of the economy with a controversially small budget led to an internal rebellion brewing just weeks after taking office.

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