Rishi Sunak’s team is said to have done much less work in building a ministerial team, given his position significantly behind his rival in the polls. But an ally of the former chancellor said Mr Sunak’s supporters were “really skeptical” of opinion polls showing Ms Truss well ahead of her rival, insisting she still had a “very slim chance” of a shock victory. Mr Sunak’s allies said he should be given “proper treatment” by Ms Truss if he becomes prime minister and not exiled to the back tables for years. “He cannot behave like Boris in 2019,” said one ally. “He didn’t get it [support from] so many MPs – it’s a different environment than when Boris won. He cannot act like a terrorist.” But the Foreign Secretary’s team believes Mr Sunak effectively ruled himself out of a government post when he said: “One thing I thought a bit about being in the government and the cabinet [is] you really have to agree on the big stuff because it’s hard, I’ve found, if you don’t. “I wouldn’t want to be in that situation again.” In an interview with The Telegraph, Dominic Raab, a supporter of Mr Sunak who is expected to lose his job as Justice Secretary, admits he has a “50/50” chance of losing his now marginal seat in Surrey at the next election – but insists that he will not take a seat in the House of Lords. Also writing in The Telegraph, Sir Keir Starmer, the Labor leader, gives an indication of his likely line of attack at the new leader’s first Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, stating: “There is no sign that either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss have understood the scale of what we are facing, let alone possess the answers to it.’ And he adds: “The center does not hold. Things seem to be falling apart.” In her op-ed, Ms Truss pledges to “take on what is holding us back”, stating: “The fallout from the pandemic and Putin’s war has been an extraordinary shock to our economy and has exposed long-standing problems. “We need to do things differently to get the country back on track and overcome these difficult times, which is why I have stood as our next prime minister.” He added: “I will take decisive action to ensure that families and businesses can get through this winter and next. “If elected, I plan within the first week of my new administration to set out our immediate action on energy bills and energy supply. A budget event will follow later this month from my chancellor, with a wider package of action for the economy.”
