Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss now look to be fighting each other to take on Rishi Sunak in membership vote
Kemi Badenoch has been eliminated from therace, setting up a battle between Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss to join Rishi Sunak in the last round.
A last MPs’ vote on Wednesday will decide which two candidates will go to a ballot of Conservative party members, with the final result due on 5 September. Whoever wins will become prime minister. A Sunak-supporting MP denied the former chancellor’s camp would be disappointed at having not reached the 120-vote threshold on Tuesday.
He added: “But I would have thought that most of the people who are attracted to Kemi, they’ll mostly not be attracted to Penny. So obviously I’m hopeful that Liz will be able to attract their support. But one must never take anything for granted.”
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