British Prime Minister hopeful Rishi Sunak has said he is excited to keep going in the Conservative Party leadership campaign even as surveys of party voters predict a firm lead for his rival, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
In an interview on Thursday with the ITV channel바카라s 바카라This Morning바카라 programme, the Indian-origin former Chancellor said he 바카라definitely바카라 had a shot at victory as he reiterated his stance that his rival바카라s instant tax-cutting plans would prove inflationary for the economy.
"I'm really excited to keep going, I think my ideas are the right ones," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, a new YouGov poll for 바카라Sky News바카라 showed Truss holding on to a solid 32-point lead in the race and other surveys of Tory members who will be voting in this election have shown a similar tilt in favour of Sunak's opponent.
During a wide-ranging discussion on ITV, the ex-minister in Boris Johnson바카라s Cabinet admitted it was a 바카라bit odd바카라 that his former boss took days before announcing his resignation as Tory leader and British Prime Minister last month in the wake of a deluge of ministerial resignations following his own early exit.
바카라In the end it went on for a couple of days 바카라 it was a bit odd. I think people watching it were wondering what was going on," he said, with reference to the political high drama at Downing Street in early July which ultimately ended with Johnson announcing his decision to quit and triggering the leadership election.
Johnson's ministers resigned one after the other early last month after weeks of crisis over the partygate scandal of lockdown law-breaking parties under his watch and a few other scandals involving his close aides. While Sunak acknowledged that having his Chancellor quit was a big blow to Johnson바카라s leadership, he stressed that it was "not the end of the world".
"The thing that changed it was when 60 members of government all resigned and that happened over the course of a day," he pointed out.
The former finance minister, who has previously also admitted that his ex-boss has not taken any of his calls or messages, said the reaction was understandable.
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On the key campaign issue of tackling the country's cost-of-living crisis, Sunak renewed another previous assertion that he would "rather lose" than "say things that can't be delivered".
"I haven바카라t made my life easy, saying things maybe some people don바카라t want to hear. It should be about under-promising and over-delivering, that바카라s how you restore trust in government and politics,바카라 said Sunak.
바카라We바카라ve probably not had enough of that. That바카라s why in this leadership race I바카라ve not been making lots of easy promises that I think are false, I바카라d rather lose than say things I don바카라t think can be delivered, I바카라d rather be honest with people,바카라 he said.
