The above betting chart reveals simply how secure the betting has change into with Truss barely shifting off a 90% probability for the reason that begin of the month.
Though the race is occupying a lot media consideration very littie is occurring that’s going to forestall the now gaffe-prone Truss from being made chief and getting the decision from the Palace on September sixth.
In the mean time she is operating a horrible marketing campaign with U-turn after U-turn saying one factor in the future and one thing completely completely different 24 hours later. I’m starting to surprise if the political betting story of 2023 might be on how lengthy she will be able to final and it could not shock me if the Tories had one other chief for the following election.
Sunak hasn’t been significantly better and I’ve began to really feel a bit sorry for each of them going from occasion to occasion touring lots of of miles when the result shouldn’t be actually at stake.
Mike Smithson