Candidate Four: Kemi Badenoch.
Run-off scores –
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Kemi Badenoch: 37 per cent (291 votes)
Rishi Sunak: 37 per cent (290 votes).
Don’t know: 26 per cent.
(781 votes cast)
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Kemi Badenoch: 35 per cent.
Liz Truss: 43 per cent.
Don’t know: 22 per cent.
(784 votes cast)
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Kemi Badenoch: 27 per cent.
Nadhim Zahawi: 46 per cent.
Don’t know: 26 per cent.
(784 votes cast)
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Kemi Badenoch: 29 per cent
Penny Mordaunt: 47 per cent.
Don’t know: 24 per cent
(783 votes cast)
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Kemi Badenoch: 24 per cent.
Ben Wallace: 59 per cent.
Don’t know: 17 per cent.
(784 votes cast)
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I suspect that the Levelling Up and Equalities Minister isn’t remotely a leadership contender. But I wanted to chuck her in to the survey to see how she’d do.
And the answer is not at all badly. She narrowly pips the Chancellor himself in these run-offs, and if this poll is right could beat all comers bar the Defence Secretary were she to take all or in some cases most of the don’t knows.
These are on the high side throughout: even up against Liz Truss, that squeezer-down of the don’t know column, they come in at 22 per cent.
That will partly reflect how little the panel members feel they know about Badenoch, but it seems that they rather like the cut of her jib.