However, Sir John Curtice, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University and a leading pollster in the UK, told The Times' this week that he would be extraordinarily surprised if Truss, 47, did not go on to succeed Boris Johnson. Sunak, 42, himself has stressed that he is definitely in with a shot at victory as he continues to campaign to win over Conservative Party members who are voting by postal and online ballot. This gives Truss a firm 32-point lead, which most analysts have interpreted as being pretty definitive at this late stage of the contest. Shapps' intervention comes a day after a YouGov poll for Sky News' suggested 66 per cent of Tory members are in favour of voting for Truss and 34 per cent back the British Indian ex-minister, once those party members who do not know or will not vote are excluded. As I said, it is only just over a fortnight's time we will know the answer to that, he said, with reference to the September 5 results day when the new Tory leader and Prime Minister will be declared. "I think the 2016 Brexit poll where everyone was pretty sure the country was about to vote for remain I think it would be a very good idea to wait for those who are voting in this contest to complete the vote. I don't think it would be right for either side to not allow a formal vote to go ahead and if there is one thing we have learned from the last few years is, think of the 2015 election, I was party chairman at the time, everyone said we couldn't win the election," recalled the senior Conservative Party MP. We will know who the new Prime Minister is in a little over two weeks, Shapps told Sky News' when asked if it was time for Sunak to concede defeat in the Tory leadership election. However, the result on June 23, 2016, confounded most analysts who had also got predictions of a Conservative Party loss or hung Parliament in general elections a year before. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pointed to the outcome of the European Union (EU) referendum over six years ago, which most pollsters had predicted would end in Britain voting to remain in the economic bloc. With Rishi Sunak behind in pre-poll surveys, one of his ministerial supporters from the UK Cabinet said on Friday that the former Chancellor could still pull off a surprise win over Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in the race to 10 Downing Street similar to the Brexit result of June 2016.
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