RISHI Sunak is tonight playing on storming a make-or-break interview to maintain his evaporating PM goals alive.
After an ungainly first hustings, he’s scrambling to meet up with Liz Truss – who the bookies now put inside touching distance of No10.
The newest odds from Smarkets give the Foreign Secretary a 90 per cent probability of profitable the Tory management contest towards a ten per cent hope for the previous Chancellor.
But Mr Sunak is hoping to show the tide by profitable a TV bout with rottweiler interviewer Andrew Neil at 7.30pm on Channel 4.
Ms Truss is ducking the grilling with the notoriously powerful broadcaster, giving Mr Sunak the chance to attain free factors towards his rival.
He has already been taunting Ms Truss for dodging the interview and can seemingly ramp this up after tonight’s showdown.
But his gamble may spectacularly backfire if Mr Neil skewers Mr Sunak on his pitch to be PM.
At the primary Tory hustings in Leeds final evening the wannabe PM was probed on his obvious u-turn on tax cuts and accused of stabbing Boris Johnson within the again.
An additional blow got here final evening as Defence Secretary Ben Wallace completely declared his assist for Ms Truss in The Sun – and tore into Mr Sunak.
Defiant Mr Sunak final evening mentioned he’s combating for each vote and insisted: “We are going to have to appeal to swing voters in every part of our country.
“And I believe with all my heart that I am the person, I am the candidate, that gives our party the best opportunity to secure that victory.”
But his window to shut the hole is vanishing quick as poll papers will land on 160,000 Tory members’ doormats on Monday.
While activists can change their thoughts on-line forward of the outcomes on September 5, the following few days are essential for each candidates.
Tory grandee Michael Portillo feared the writing was already on the partitions for Mr Sunak.
The former Defence Secretary informed LBC: “I think it is slipping away from Rishi Sunak. I think he is losing the campaign.”
Smarkets Head of Political Markets, Matthew Shaddick, mentioned: “Many were forecasting that Sunak would be a better campaigner, but Truss’s debate performances have beaten expectations and, if anything, Sunak’s team appears to be the one on the defensive.”
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