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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Sajid Javid backs Liz Truss for PM as new polls give her clear lead over Rishi Sunak

Liz Truss’s bid to become the next prime minister was boosted on Tuesday evening after she won the backing of former rival Sajid Javid and polls suggested she had a massive lead over Rishi Sunak.

The Foreign Secretary won a 34-percentage point lead over Mr Sunak in a YouGov poll of party members, before a survey for the ConservativeHome website put her 32 points ahead.

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