UK's Liz Truss 22 points ahead in race to be next PM -Opinium poll

LONDON: Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is 22 percentage points ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country's next prime minister, a poll of Conservative Party members by Opinium showed on Saturday.

The survey of 450 party members who had decided how theywould vote in the ongoing leadership election put Truss, whoother polls have also shown to be the clear frontrunner, on 61%, with former finance minister Sunak on 39%, Opinium said.