Badenoch leads by double digits in latest UK Conservative poll | Eastern NC Now

A poll by the respected Conservative Party website Conservative Home after the first of two televised debates between the five contenders still in the race for leadership of the Conservative Party gives small "c" Conservative Kemi Badenoch, a black conservative woman who is an immigrant from Nigeria, a double digit lead among grassroots activists.  The eventual winner of party leadership will become Boris Johnson's successor as Prime Minister.

https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/16/our-next-tory-leader-badenoch-opens-up-a-double-digit-lead-truss-mordaunt-and-sunak-are-bunched-together-second-third-and-fourth/

Badenoch gained fame as Minister of Equalities for her hard line against Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter.  She calls for reducing the size of government, cutting taxes, and dumping Boris Johnson's green agenda which she has denounced as "unilateral economic disarmament".  She also calls for more stringent action against illegal immigration.

An earlier poll by the UK's largest circulation broadsheet newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, which supports the Conservative Party, had earlier given Badenoch a lead among Conservative voters.  The poll by Conservative Home, however is even more significant since it represents party activists.

There will be another televised debate Sunday, then three more votes by Conservative members of Parliament to reduce the number of contenders to two.  The final vote will be a postal ballot open to the 180,000 dues paid members of the Conservative Party.