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YouGov poll: Only 12 percent expect Liz Truss will be a good prime minister
According to polling by YouGov, only 12 percent of Britons expect Liz Truss, who is expected on Monday (Sep 5) to be named winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest, will be a good or great prime minister, while 52 percent expect her to be poor or terrible.
The pollster found that Britons are split on whether Truss, who is currently foreign secretary, would be a better prime minister than predecessor Boris Johnson, but tend to think she’d be worse than every other prime minister back to Margaret Thatcher.
Regarding Johnson, only 22 percent of Britons consider his legacy as leader to be good or great, with 55 percent assessing his time in charge as poor or terrible, according to YouGov.
Truss has held a consistently wide lead over her rival former chancellor Rishi Sunak in polling of Tory members ahead of the party’s announcement of the contest winner on Monday. Whoever wins the party leadership contest will become prime minister.
YouGov collected its responses from two separate surveys, one of 1,651 adults between August 29 to 30 and another of 1,708 adults from August 24 to 25.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019.
UK PM race in final countdown for Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss
The winner of the online and postal ballots being cast since voting opened in early August will be announced on Monday (Sep 5), with the new leader heading for Scotland for an audience with the Queen at her summer residence of Balmoral Castle.
Either Sunak or Truss will then address their first Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday (Sep 7).
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