Ex-FM Rishi Sunak holds onto his lead in race to become Britain's next PM as another hopeful is knocked out, leaving four candidates in the contest to replace Boris Johnson
MPs will keep voting until only two candidates remain, the winner then being decided by the party members.
MPs will keep voting until only two candidates remain, the winner then being decided by the party members.Foreign Secretary Truss closed the gap to 11 and can probably expect more support switching to her from Badenoch's backers, should the insurgent candidate be eliminated in the next round, promising a tense race to make the final cut Wednesday.
Sunak called out Truss for voting against Brexit, her previous membership of the Liberal Democrats, and her position on tax.Paul Goodman, from the ConservativeHome website, likened the debates to a "political version of 'The Hunger Games'" and questioned why they had agreed to it. Its leader, Keir Starmer, called the candidates' withdrawal a sign of a party "out of ideas out of purpose".
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