With Boris Johnson stepping down as the Conservative leadership but keen to remain prime minister until the autumn, the race to succeed him is on.
A new YouGov poll of 716 Conservative party members shows at first glance that the field appears to be diverse.
Current Defense Secretary Ben Wallace tops the list, with 13%, neck and neck with Trade Secretary Penny Mordant (12%). Former Home Secretary Rishi Sunak gets 10% and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss gets 8%.
Jeremy Hunt, who came second in the 2019 Conservative leadership contest, is in eighth place with 5%, along with new chancellor Nadim Zahawi.
As YouGov reports, while the choice of successor appears to be in doubt, the poll pitting the candidates against each other has a clear winner, Ben Wallace.
Wallace wins all of his matchups by a wide margin. His closest competitor is Sunak, who he beats with 51% to 30%. She beats both Truss and Mordaud with 48% of the vote to 26-29%. And most Conservative members (58%) prefer him to Hunt (22%).
Source: Capital
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