D-day for Tory Leadership elections; UK to get Boris Johnson successor today

London, Sept 5: UK is set to announce its new Prime Minister today (Sept 5), after a six week long head to head competition between the Indian origin Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, to elect the new Leader of the Conservative Party, who will replace the outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

 

 

 

 

47 year old Liz Truss aims to become the Third female Prime Minister of UK while her opponent Rishi Sunak, 42 will inscribe history by becoming Britain's first Indian origin PM, if either of the two prevails. All eyes are on the results now, which will be announced by the Conservative Party today (Sept 5) via a mail-in ballot.

 

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However, Truss who is widely expected to takeover from Boris Johnson as the next British Prime Minister, seems to have less fan following. According to the altest YouGov survey, the citizens of Britain are split on weather Liz Truss would be a better PM than Boris Johnson but tend to think that Truss would be worse than any other British PM back to Thatcher.

 

 

 

 

 

Nearly 52 per cent said that Truss would make a 'poor' or 'terrible' Prime Minister, while 43 per cent said that they didn't trust her 'at all' to deal with the issues of expensive cost of living. A further 37 per cent of Britons believe that she will be much the same as her predecessor.

 

The voting by Tory members for their choice between Sunak and Truss which started early August closed Friday (Aug 2) evening. The two contenders have gone through a postal ballot of all the Conservative members , numbering around 160,000 Tory electorate to replace the outgoing British PM Boris Johnson.