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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

No way! Johnson is the best choice we have at the moment. Unless the Conservative Party throws him out, he is the one to lead us into the next election, and he will win. There is simply no competition.

Truss is far more popular amongst Party members than Johnson. However, she may have slipped up too.

Liz Truss asked for public money to cover £3,000 lunch

Liz Truss, the current favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservatives among party members, hosted a lunch at an expensive private club owned by a Tory donor after overruling civil service advice to look for a cheaper venue.

Leaked correspondence has revealed the foreign secretary “refused to consider anywhere else” and asked that public funds should pay for a £3,000 event with Joe Biden’s trade representative.

Civil servants were so concerned at the cost and the venue’s close links to the Tories that the proposal was referred to the most senior official at the Department for International Trade.

According to the correspondence [seen by the Sunday Times], Truss, then the trade secretary, “explicitly asked that we book 5 Hertford Street”, which is owned by Robin Birley, a £20,000 donor to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and the half-brother of Zac Goldsmith, the environment minister.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...?ocid=msedgntp