London: Foreign Secretary liz truss Maintains strong lead over former chancellor Rishi Sunki In the race to be elected leader of the Conservative Party and British prime minister, according to a new poll of Tory voters on Wednesday.
The Conservative Home website survey of 961 party members who are already in or casting their postal or online ballots in the leadership election found Truss at 60 percent and Sunak at 28 percent.
Once the 9 percent that falls under the “don’t know” category is evenly distributed between the two finalists in the contest, Truss maintains a 32 point lead over the former British Indian minister as of the website’s launch earlier this month. Got the last survey. ,
“If our information is divided equally between the two candidates, the truss goes up to 64 percent and the craze goes up to 32 percent, the exercise we did last time – and so that’s 32 points last time round. maintains the edge, Conservative Homes said in its analysis of the latest findings.
“The sum of Opinium, YouGov and our survey is that Truss is set to win by a margin of about 70-30 and 60-40 – maybe a little more, maybe a little less,” it notes.
The new element in the latest poll, conducted after the ballot paper was released, was the question of how many members had already voted. The website found that 60 percent of respondents said they had and 40 percent said they didn’t.
Meanwhile, candidates continued their campaign in different parts of the United Kingdom to convince them to cast their vote and arrived in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
Focal issue persists survival crisis As the latest inflation data for July released earlier in the day showed a 40-year high of 10.1 per cent, amid rising prices of food and essential commodities. The critical dividing line between the two contenders is how the crisis should be dealt with and Sunak took a direct dig at his rival’s tax cut solution as a “moral failure”.
Sunak said at an event in Belfast, “Liz plans to say, ‘Well, I believe in tax cuts, not direct support. I don’t think that’s right. .
“If we do not directly help those vulnerable groups, those with the lowest incomes, those pensioners, it will be a moral failure of the Conservative government and I don’t think the British people will forgive us for that,” he said. ,
Meanwhile, the truss reiterated its pledge to “immediately” reduce taxes and moratorium on green energy levies to curb inflation.
“The green energy levy is on all bills, so by removing it we will save money on people’s bills. But what won’t work is a sticking plaster of handing over more money without tackling the root cause.”
The election campaign runs through August, an annual holiday season in the UK, while Parliament is on its summer break. Voting will officially close on the evening of 2 September and the votes will be tallied for results to be announced in time for the House of Commons meeting to resume on 5 September.
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