By Enyichukwu Enemanna
The hope of former Chancellor Rishi Sunak to become the next Prime Minister of UK may be witnessing a setback as Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, continues to maintain a commanding 22-point lead in the contest to emerge the leader of the Conservative Party who, and automatic Prime Minister.
This is according to a new survey of Tory members on Sunday.
In an Opinium poll for ‘The Observer’ newspaper of 570 Conservative members with a vote in the election, Truss is on 61 per cent while Sunak, a British Indian former minister is on 39 percent.
With less than three weeks to the September 2 deadline for postal and online votes to be cast by the membership to elect a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sunak seems not to have done a lot in closing the gap lately.
“From the moment we knew the final two candidates, it has been clear that Truss has had all the momentum. Our latest poll sets out just how large her lead among the party members has become,” Chris Curtis of Opinium told said.
“With many members having returned their ballot papers, it is now very unlikely Truss won’t become PM in September,” he said.
