I'm not sure what Barbara actually wants from her question (and what's it got to do with July 7th?) but, assuming it was a serious question and she really wants to know why Truss is so far ahead of Sunak, I'd say it lies, as David implies, in the demographics of the party membership. Tim Bale of Queen Mary College, has been studying this for a while, and finds that Conservative party members are more likely to be male, white British, a Leave voter, middle class and living in the south of England, and "Tory members are older, too, than the wider population. The median age, believes Bale, is 57, whereas the average UK age is 40. Just 6 per cent of members are thought to be aged under 25 (https://www.ft.com/content/1454fe21-5b2e-459c-966c-65fd48d52f8f).In other words, they are predominately white, better off older men living in the south east. So no wonder they prefer Truss even though she's a woman, to what they (not me!!) would no doubt refer to as "that coloured chappie."
Richard Carter ● 1059d