A survey of 879 members put Ms Mordaunt on 27 per cent – almost twice as much as second-placed Kemi Badenoch, on 15 per cent. Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss were supported by 13 per cent of respondents. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, had the support of 8 percent, while Attorney General Suella Braverman was at 5 percent. Former health minister Jeremy Hunt had the support of 4 percent, while just 1 percent wanted Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi as the next prime minister. At 5/1, Ms Mordaunt is less likely to win than Rishi Sunak, according to the bookmakers. YouGov’s findings confirm those of a Conservative Home poll on Tuesday, which put the same two candidates as favorites among the party faithful. It also put her ahead of all her rivals in one-on-one multiple choice questions. Former Defense Secretary and Armed Forces Secretary Ms Mordaunt is a Brexit supporter and a reservist in the Royal Navy. In the 2020 reshuffle, he was appointed head of payments and last year became trade policy minister. YouGov found that Ms Mordaunt held a strong lead in both the single choice question and all the individual questions about who she would like to be the new party leader. She told campaigners earlier that she was the Tory leadership candidate Labour’s “worst fear” and the party’s “best chance” of winning the next general election. Launching her campaign using her initials to create the slogan ‘PM4PM’, the International Trade Secretary also warned that the Conservative Party had “lost its sense of self” as it set out a pitch for low taxation and shrinking the size of the state . . Flanked by former cabinet ministers Andrea Lindsom and David Davis, she also insisted she was “very different” to Boris Johnson but signaled she would not call a snap general election if she entered No 10. Four years ago, Ms Mordaunt said “trans women are women and trans men are men” insisting on a strictly biological basis for womanhood. She has also highlighted how she repeatedly championed women’s rights as minister for women and equalities from 2018 to 2019. Observers have pointed out that she could be the first prime minister with the initials PM and that if she appeared on Radio 4’s evening news program it would be “PM PM on PM”.
