BREAKING: A new poll of Conservative party members has put Penny Mordaunt on track to win the Tory leadership contest.
A new poll of Conservative party members has putThe snap YouGov poll shows Ms Mordaunt is the new favourite for leader among party members, after the previous preferred choice Ben Wallace decided not to stand.
The poll asked more than 870 party members to choose which confirmed leadership candidate they ‘most wanted to replace Boris Johnson’ with 27% saying Ms Mordaunt. Kemi Badenoch came second with 15%, followed by Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss who both got 13% of the vote. Ms Mordaunt also came out on top when candidates were pitched head to head, beating everyone she was theoretically paired against.
Her closest competitor in head to head challenges is Ms Truss, who she would still beat by 55% to 37%.The results of the snap poll give Ms Mordaunt a huge boost ahead of the first round of voting in the leadership race which is due to take place this afternoon.While the former chancellor appears to have the most support among Tory MPs at the nomination stage, he performed poorly in head-to-heads presented in the poll.
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