The Tory leadership race is almost over and at last a new PM will be announced. Most expect that next Tuesday it will be Liz Truss, the Insta-loving, Beyonce-quoting, cheese-bashing Foreign Secretary, who will be stutting her way up Downing Street to the famous door of No. 10. Her first order of business – after kissing hands with the Queen and giving her nuclear instructions – will be the appointment of a new cabinet: a chance to reward friends and purge rivals.
Steerpike thought it only fair therefore to see what the public makes of the prospect of several well-known Westminster faces making a return under Truss. A poll for The Spectator by Redfield and Wilton surveyed 1,500 eligible voters and found that a majority of the public think they have seen enough of only seven leading Tories to be able to make a fair judgment of them. Unsurprisingly, they include outgoing PM Boris Johnson.
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