Almost three-quarters of people do not care who becomes the next archbishop of Canterbury, new polling suggests.

The Church of England's most senior bishop is expected to be named in the coming weeks, almost a year after Justin Welby resigned over failures in handling a sex abuse scandal .

But new Ipsos polling for the PA news agency suggested 74% of the 1,100 British people surveyed do not care who was appointed.

Out of the 505 people who identified as Christian - not necessarily only those from a Church of England background - 62% also felt this way.

People cited the cost of living and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as among topics the public were following more closely than news of the archbishop.

Image: Justin Welby resigned in November 2024. Pic: PA

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