"Dunno if they exist, but this Tory candidate sounds good to me!"

[muriel_volestrangler]

Ms Mordaunt was known by 20% of people and Mr Tugendhat by 15%, while Ms Badenoch and Ms Braverman were on just 14%.

However, 12% of people told Ipsos that they knew either a great deal or a fair amount about Stewart Lewis, a fake candidate created by the pollster.

Some 6% even said they knew “a great deal” about the non-existent Mr Lewis, more than the 5% who said the same thing about Ms Braverman, the Attorney General, and the same proportion as for Ms Badenoch and Mr Tugendhat.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jeremy-hunt-liz-truss-suella-braverman-keir-starmer-penny-mordaunt-b1012160.html

"New poll from @SavantaComRes finds just 11% of the public and 16% of Conservative voters can correctly name Penny Mordaunt when shown a photo of her.

Sunak 66%
Truss 33%
Mordaunt 11%"

Link to tweet

But despite that, Mordaunt is the leader among Tory members:



Oh, and Hunt and Zahawi are out of the race: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/13/jeremy-hunt-and-nadhim-zahawi-knocked-out-of-tory-leadership-race

[LeftishBrit]

1. Doesn't exist? That's my favourite sort of Tory MP!