Rishi Sunak is the public’s favourite to replace Liz Truss – followed by Boris Johnson
RISHI Sunak is the public's favourite to take over from Liz Truss - followed by Boris Johnson.
But in a doomsday warning for the Tories, stark new polling shows voters would prefer a “coalition of chaos” including Labour, the SNP and the Lib Dems over the troubled PM.
More than two thirds of voters think Truss should quit (71%), with 69 per cent saying there should be an immediate General Election if she does.
Sixty-seven per cent want an election regardless of whether Truss goes.
Less than one in five (18%) want the PM to cling on but voters are not yet convinced Sir Keir Starmer would be any better.
Only 48 per cent say they are "certain" or "somewhat certain" that Labour would do a better job that the Conservatives 21 per cent uncertain.
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Gabriel Milland of Portland Communications said: "These are very bad numbers for the Prime Minister.
"The public have looked at the past few weeks and they just see chaos.
"It has very badly undermined any Tory claim that things would be chaotic under Labour, even if Keir Starmer had to rely on the Lib Dems and the SNP.
"But Labour still has work to do persuade a decent majority of people that things would be much better under them";.
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"Meanwhile the public seem dead set on an election as soon as possible.
"If you asked Brenda from Bristol what she thought about having another one, she would probably have changed her mind and be quite keen these days "
Portland Communications polled 1511 Brits online between 14-16 October, with a 3% margin of error.