Eight candidates have managed to reach the threshold of 20 nominations from Tory MPs. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Jeremy Hunt, Suella Braverman and Nadhim Zahawi progress to the next stage of the leadership contest, while Sajid Javid and Rehman Chishti have dropped out of the race. The first ballot of Tory MPs takes place on Wednesday. Any contenders who receive fewer than 30 votes will be eliminated from the competition.
11.06am Tugendhat has the wind in his sails
James Forsyth writes… The Tugendhat campaign is bullish this morning, very confident that they’ll easily pass the 30-vote threshold needed to proceed to the second round.
The Mordaunt camp are understandably confident, given that they pretty much have the numbers in public declarations. But as one member of it remarks to me, until we see some real numbers after the first ballot it will be hard to tell what the rest of the race looks like.
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