A poll suggested chancellor Mr Sunak would provide more of a challenge to Sir Keir Starmer
suggested chancellor Mr Sunak would provide more of a challenge to Sir Keir Starmer, whose Labour Party has surged in recent polls following a series of scandals overseen by Mr Johnson.
The new poll – which asked respondents who they would vote for under four scenarios in which the Tory leader was Mr Johnson, Mr Sunak, Liz Truss and Michael Gove – projected Mr Johnson winning 203 seats, compared to 263 under Mr Sunak. However, such an outcome from Mr Sunak would still be well short of the 326 seats required to form a majority government. The Conservatives, following Mr Johnson’s landslide election win in 2019,In better news for the beleaguered prime minister, though, the poll suggested foreign secretary Ms Truss – hugely popular with the Tory grassroots – would only win 162 seats, and Michael Gove 136.
For context, Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to its worst general election result since 1935 when the party won 202 seats in 2019. Mr Johnson will be hoping for a reset of his premiership in the new year following a series of scandals involving Tory MPs’ second jobs, the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat and, arguably most damaging of all, allegations of various parties or gatherings in government buildings when the wider country was subject to Covid lockdown restrictions.
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