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No clear frontrunner as Tory management race narrows


Following final evening’s elimination of Tom Tugendhat from the race for the Conservative management, the remaining 4 candidates proceed to vie for MP assist forward of tonight’s additional vote.

On this night’s vote, MPs will whittle down the remaining 4 candidates to a few.

The Tonbridge and Malling MP polled 31 votes, whereas former chancellor Rishi Sunak continued to prime the ballot with 115 votes.

Penny Mordaunt stays in second place, however with one fewer vote (82) than within the second poll.

Kemi Badenoch completed in fourth place with 58 votes however picked up extra new voters (9) within the third poll than Liz Truss who completed with 71, seven greater than the earlier spherical.

The important thing query is who Tugendhat’s 31 erstwhile supporters will change their vote to in tonight’s vote.

Whereas Tugendhat himself is now backing Mordaunt, it’s not clear that his backers will all fall in step with this choice.

Former deputy prime minister Damian Inexperienced advised BBC Radio 4’s At the moment programme this morning that he has “not essentially” determined in opposition to voting for a candidate who served in Boris Johnson’s prime staff.

Inexperienced, a member of the liberal-leaning “One Nation” wing of the occasion, defined: “What’s vital to me is that I wish to see a Conservative authorities that respects our establishments, respects the rule of regulation, tries to unfold wealth and alternative all through the nation.

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