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Liz Truss holds firm lead over Rishi Sunak in UK PM race: Tory survey

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is holding on to a firm lead over former Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the race to be elected Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister, according to a new survey of Tory voters on Wednesday. The Conservative Home website survey of 961 party members, who either already have or will be casting their postal or online ballots in the leadership election, found Truss at 60 per cent and Sunak at 28 per cent. Once the 9 per cent who fall under the "don't know" category are equally distributed between the two finalists in the contest, Truss maintains a 32-point lead over the British Indian ex-minister as the website's last survey found earlier this month. "If our don't knows are divided evenly between the two candidates, an exercise we carried out last time, Truss goes up to 64 per cent and Sunak to 32 per cent and so maintains the 32 point lead she had last time round, Conservative Home said in an analysis of its latest findings. "The sum of Opinium, ..

Freedom from freebies must not come from judicial diktat or executive fiat

The Supreme Court should stick to its normal posture of not getting embroiled in political thickets

Liz Truss in commanding lead over Rishi Sunak in UK PM race: Survey

The UK prime ministerial race frontrunner, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, continues to hold on to a commanding 22-point lead over former Chancellor Rishi Sunak

UK must sanction Iran over Salman Rushdie stabbing, says Rishi Sunak

UK Prime Minister hopeful and Conservative party leadership contender Rishi Sunak has called for sanctions on Iran over the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie in the US

Liz Truss leads the race for UK's next PM by 22 points, reveals survey

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has gained as many as a 22-point lead over former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the race for becoming the next Prime Minister, according to latest Opinium Research survey

'Unsurprisingly, Boris Johnson has not returned my calls': Rishi Sunak

That's one of those Westminster questions that doesn't change price of fish. There are plenty of things that do change price of fish, not least price of energy, but that's not one of them, said Boris

As UK heads for recession, here's who could control finances in new govt

With the Bank of England predicting inflation topping 13% in the fall and a recession lasting through 2023, the next incumbent of 11 Downing Street will be under immediate pressure

UK PM race: Rishi Sunak says he'd rather lose than win on a false promise

Rishi Sunak has insisted that he would rather lose the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Boris Johnson than win on a false promise on how he plans to tackle the economic crisis

Rishi Sunak promises more support in UK energy crisis if elected as UK PM

The 42-year-old Indian-origin finalist in the Conservative Party leadership election pledged government "efficiency savings" to fund the support, while limiting borrowing.

US-based Indian organisation endorses Rishi Sunak for the UK PM race

A US-based Indian organisation that caters to the interests of the Hindu-American community on Monday endorsed former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak to become Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister

UK PM race: Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss feel heat over cost-of-living crisis

While Truss has pledged immediate tax cuts if elected, Sunak has promised more targeted support for the most vulnerable households and tax cuts further down the line.

Rishi Sunak under fire over boast he moved funding from deprived UK areas

Rishi Sunak's campaign spent Friday on the back foot as he faced widespread criticism over his remarks about reversing government funding for deprived urban areas

UK PM race: Rishi Sunak wins over voters in TV debate against Truss

Rishi Sunak convincingly won over an audience of Conservative Party members in a head-to-head television debate with rival Liz Truss in the leadership contest to elect British prime minister

Second survey shows Liz Truss ahead of rival Rishi Sunak in UK PM race

A new survey of members of the governing Conservative Party shows Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is firmly ahead of rival Rishi Sunak in the race to replace Boris Johnson as the British Prime Minister

48 vs 43: Race to 10 Downing Street now closer than thought, poll says

Liz Truss is backed by 48% of Conservatives compared with former FM Sunak's 43%, according to a new poll; voting delayed after hacking alert

Liz Truss gets 34-point lead in latest opinion poll of Conservative members

Truss and Sunak will face the Tory faithful Wednesday night amid strong signs that the party has already made up its mind who it wants to become its next leader and prime minister, Daily Mail reported

Live news updates: ED attaches worth assets Rs 415 cr in Yes Bank-DHFL case

Live news updates: ED has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 251 crores of Sanjay Chhabria and assets worth Rs 164 crores of Avinash Bhosale, in Yes Bank- DHFL fraud case under PMLA, 2002

Rishi Sunak closing gap on rival Liz Truss in UK PM race, shows survey

It is in sharp contrast to a YouGov survey carried out at the end of the knockout stages last month, which suggested that Truss had a 24-point lead over the 42-year-old British Indian former minister.

British PM race: Rishi Sunak vows 20% cut to UK income tax in a few race

As the voting process for the new Party leader formally opened from Monday, Rishi Sunak vowed to cut the basic rate of income tax by 20 per cent in a few years if elected to power

Rishi Sunak for £10 fine for missed hospital appointments: Report

Racism not a factor in PM race, said Sunak