Liz Truss will go head-to-head with Rishi Sunak in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister as the bookmakers and opinion polls put the foreign secretary as the favourite to succeed Boris Johnson.
After five bruising rounds of voting by Tory MPs, Truss and Sunak will battle it out over the summer for the support of 150,000 members to succeed Johnson as the party’s next leader.
Although the former chancellor received the biggest vote among MPs, Truss is the favourite to win the contest based on her popularity with party members. According to Ladbrokes, the odds of her being the next Conservative party leader are 4/7, while Sunak is at 11/8.
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