Rishi Sunak still favorite as Liz Truss leads Conservative polls – Times of India

EXETER: conservative top choice sage sunki The race to succeed ousted British PM Boris Johnson is all at play, according to smartly dressed and well-talked-about Tory members in the packed Exeter housing on Monday night, although the Indian-origin MP was behind Liz . truss Who made the election the next leader of the party.
Many were undecided and some are switching sides as the competition progresses. Although ballots will arrive at their door this week, some said they would wait for the polls and TV debates to go on before ticking the box. Sunak’s faith and Indian heritage were considered irrelevant.
Many young conservatives were in favor of the craze. “People think the truss is the winner, but we think it’s undecided,” said 19-year-old voter Cameron Kinch. “The downside of Sunak is that he wasn’t loyal to Boris and I value loyalty. But the positive is that he’s a safe partner.”
Another voter peter barocliffesaid that they have decided to vote for Sunak, but that Liz seems to be getting a lot of positive coverage, which worries her. “I haven’t heard enough about his foreign policies. shi Financially capable, but I am not sure he has got the political recognition to face world leaders. ,
But some had their doubts. According to 17-year-old Benedict Robertson, Rishi is not aggressive enough. Fellow voter John O’Leary said: “I prefer Truss because he is more experienced and Sage is still new to the game.”
The craze initially did not have the same relationship with audiences, as the truce poked fun at and rattled through populist policies such as cutting taxes, preventing the European Court of Human Rights from scrapping the UK’s plans to tackle illegal immigration, slimming Degrading the public sector and enacting a law against railway strikes.
Truss said that if she becomes Prime Minister, she will include Sunak in her cabinet team. “He’s a wonderful guy and I have a lot of respect for him,” she said.
This was followed by a surprise announcement by Penny Mordaunt, who was third in the competition, that she was backing Truss.
Sunak was greeted with huge applause by the rural audience, with almost none from the ethnic minority. After being mocked for taking selfies with kids because they matched their “size,” Sunak said he was brought up with family values. He repeated several pledges of the truss. But he had new ideas on how to clean up the NHS backlog and was overjoyed when he said he was not going to put the country’s debt on credit cards.
“I am a practicing Hindu and raised my children as Hindu. It’s a special part of how I live my life today,” he said and revealed that his favorite non-political book was ‘Going Solo’. Roald Dal And if he had not been a politician, he would have run the Southampton Football Club.
As the night went on, he became more animated and there was a huge applause when he left, perhaps a notch behind a truss. Some voters liked Sunak’s “good policies” after the election.
“The competition between the candidates is extremely close,” said Councilor Andrew Parry. Sunak previously seemed to be a more natural performer, he said, but now “Truss has demonstrated that he has a sense of humor and has spoken more seriously about his policies”.