Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak said on Sunday that racism is not a factor in the Conservative Party membership’s decision to vote for the next party leader and successor of Boris Johnson as UK PM.The finalist in the race to 10 Downing Street who is trailing his opponent, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, in surveys during the leadership election campaign set to conclude on September 5, dismissed factors such as gender or ethnicity would play a part in Tory members’ postal ballots from next week.