Boris Johnson on track for landslide win as 73 per cent of Tory voters back the PM hopeful, survey reveals
BORIS Johnson is on course for a landslide victory in the Tory leadership race, a survey reveals.
The hot favourite is expected to clean up nearly three-quarters of votes from grassroots members.
It raises the prospect of him entering 10 Downing Street this week with a huge mandate to deliver Brexit by the end of October.
Mr Johnson has won the support of 73 per cent of those eligible to vote, according to an exclusive survey for The Sun on Sunday.
The figures even suggest his fan base has increased during the four-week campaign in which he was pitched head-to-head with rival Jeremy Hunt 17 times.
An ally said: “With every passing day it became clear that Boris was the candidate most likely to deliver Brexit on time – and the one much more likely to beat Jeremy Corbyn in a general election.”
'BOJO WILL WIN'
A victory on that scale will give BoJo a powerful hand as he reshapes the Cabinet and demands EU chiefs re-open talks about a Brexit deal.
The online survey of Tory members was carried out by ConservativeHome over the last two days as the nationwide ballot was about to close.
The number backing BoJo is up on website’s two previous polls, which put support for him at 67 per cent at the start of the campaign and 71 per cent at the midway point.
An overwhelming 94 per cent of the 1,199 members who responded to the survey said they had already voted.
Of those who haven’t, 65 per cent were for Mr Johnson and 35 per cent for Mr Hunt.
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Former Tory MP Paul Goodman, editor of ConservativeHome, said: “All the evidence available suggests that Boris Johnson will win overwhelmingly when the result is declared on Tuesday.
“If there is a hidden army of switchers to Jeremy Hunt, it is extremely well concealed.”
A landslide of that magnitude would eclipse even David Cameron’s election as Tory leader in 2005, when he scooped 68 per cent of the votes, compared to rival David Davis’s 32 per cent.
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