With four weeks to go until the UK gets a new prime minister, front-runner Liz Truss holds such a sizable poll lead that her opponent, Rishi Sunak, could be forgiven for thinking the time has come to concede. Allies of Truss have been urging the former Chancellor of the Exchequer to do just that, to allow her to get to work on tackling crises facing Britain including a looming recession and a generational squeeze on living standards. Yet leaving aside the difficulty in accurately polling the grassroots Conservative Party members who have the final say on Boris Johnson’s successor, there are several reasons why the ... (full story)