Former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will spend the next five weeks convincing the Tory Party to vote for them
Unlike in 2016, when Theresa May became PM by default after her only opponent dropped out prior to the membership ballot, or in 2019, when Boris was miles ahead of his centrist rival Jeremy Hunt, the outcome of this race is genuinely in doubt.
While Truss has more membership support, Sunak is more popular with the general public, and polls currently show the top priority for members is electability. Though Sunak’s offer of competent managerialism puts him far behind in the membership vote, Camp Truss is privately worried that the Human Hand Grenade could live up to her name and commit political suicide during the six-week campaign.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 921)
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