Rishi Sunak still favourite to become Britain’s first Asian PM, Penny Mordaunt leads bookies’ charts
India Today
A survey carried out amongst 1001 people just after the ITV debate on Sunday placed Rishi Sunak at the top followed by Tom Tugendhart. In the third position stood Penny Mordaunt followed by Liz Truss. Last in the poll was Kemi Bedenoch.
Rishi Sunak is set to ace the MPs’ election in the Tory party leadership battle to be Britain’s first Prime Ministerial candidate, the latest polls suggested. The bets are now on who is going to be the second candidate, standing against him.
The five candidates going into the third round of voting on Monday are Kemi Badenoch of Nigerian descent; Minister of State for Trade- Penny Mordaunt; Foreign Secretary- Liz Truss; chairman of the foreign affairs select committee Tom Tugendhat, and former Chancellor of Exchequer- Rishi Sunak.
Across the weekend, the five candidates debated and called each other out on the issues of inflation, cost of living, Brexit; climate change, the Ukraine war, and so on. All of them just a fortnight ago sat on the same side of the table and now have been fiercely arguing on various policy matters and sometimes even getting personal. Such is politics.
They may differ in their approach to tackling the cost of living and inflation which happens to be top the election agenda, but at one point they stood united. None of them raised their hands to give Prime Minister Boris Johnson a seat in their cabinet, if elected.
A survey carried out amongst 1001 people just after the ITV debate on Sunday placed Rishi Sunak at the top followed by Tom Tugendhart. In the third position stood Penny Mordaunt followed by Liz Truss. Last in the poll was Kemi Bedenoch.
In yet another poll carried out by JL Partners, Sunak aced the “Good PM” rating and received positive ratings amongst the Tory voters.
On the bookies’ chart, Penny Mordaunt still leads the game followed by Sunak and then Truss.
