Whoever wins the competition will exchange Boris Johnson as celebration
chief and turn out to be prime minister.
Voting is ready to start at 13:30 with a end result anticipated at 17:00 BST.
The candidacy nominations closed at 18:00 BST final evening and the eight candidates
took half in a hustings occasion in parliament to try to safe help from their
colleagues.
The method, made tougher on this event with a purpose to scale back the
quantity variety of ‘rogue’ nominees, means they need to safe 30 votes within the
first spherical to remain within the race. That is up from 18, the quantity wanted historically.
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These in line are: Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, Penny
Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat and Nadhim Zahawi.
Earlier than at this time’s voting begins, prime minister Boris Johnson will attend his first
query time in parliament since his resignation.
At the moment, Rishi Sunak has the best quantity of help amongst Conservative
MPs, adopted by commerce minister Penny Mordaunt. Nonetheless, it nonetheless
appears that there is no such thing as a clear-cut winner at this stage.
Additional rounds of votes will happen over the subsequent few days with a purpose to take these
within the race from 8 to 2.
About 160,000 members of the Conservative celebration will then select between these
last two contestants. The winner is because of be introduced on 5 September.
Former well being secretary Sajid Javid and junior minister Rehman Chishti
didn’t safe sufficient nominations earlier than the deadline so withdrew from the
contest on Monday.
