Tory voters: Sorry Rishi, we want Liz

TORY voters prefer Liz Truss to Rishi Sunak, but share his goal of tackling inflation first before cutting taxes, a poll suggests.

Among Tory supporters, 41 per cent want Miss Truss to be the next party leader compared with 36 per cent for Mr Sunak, a YouGov poll for The Times found.

In the survey of 1,692 adults 60 per cent wanted the new PM to prioritise ‘getting inflation under control, even if this meant not cutting taxes’.

Offered a list of words to describe the rival candidates, four out of ten said Mr Sunak was ‘out of touch’. Only one in five said the same about Miss Truss.