Results in from first round of knockout votes in contest to decide next party leader and prime minister
Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, got 50 votes, andTwo candidates just made it over the line – Tom Tugendhat, chair of the foreign affairs committee, with 37 backers and, the attorney general who was the first person to declare her intention to run last week, with 32.
From top left: Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Tom Tugendhat, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch and Suella Braverman – the remaining candidates.The result suggests Hunt was lent support on Tuesday night, given he needed 20 backers to make it on to the first ballot, but at least two of those deserted him when it came to Wednesday’s vote.
Zahawi, rocked by a series of allegations about his financial affairs, was dubbed “a scandal waiting to happen” by colleagues. Neither immediately endorsed another candidate, with a rival campaign source telling the Guardian: “Don’t assume that their column of supporters will all go neatly to one other camp. It’s not solitaire.”
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