Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is dark horse in PM race
Tory leadership rivals are scrambling to catch former chancellor Rishi Sunak after he won the second round of voting to choose Boris Johnson's successor.
Five candidates remain after Attorney General Suella Braverman was knocked out in...
Sunak camp upbeat about first round result
Chris Mason
Political Editor
Team Sunak say "he’s landed a quarter of the party with eight candidates in the field".
The former Chancellor has won 88 of the possible 358 votes in today's opening ballot of Conservative MPs...
Zahawi and Hunt knocked out of contest
Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt have been eliminated from the race to be next Tory leader, following the end of the first round of voting.
Candidates needed at least 30 MPs to support them to progress to a second round - neither Hunt nor Zahawi managed this...
The case for a culture warrior PM
The Tories should take a punt on Kemi Badenoch.
TOM SLATER
EDITOR
12th July 2022
Spiked
To say that Kemi Badenoch is the best bet for the Tories is a profound understatement. It’s not even close. In this Conservative Party leadership race, among a parade of...
Libs in the UK don't like blacks who are Tories.
In their racist viewpoint, they think all blacks should be like them, and that blacks or browns like Kemi Badenoch and Priti Patel are Uncle Tom's.. That's why UK liberals don't like Badenoch.
The next Conservative leader and UK prime minister will be announced on 5 September, party bosses have said.
In a bid to rapidly eliminate fringe candidates, they have also decided to make it harder to enter into and progress in the contest.
Tory MPs will whittle the field down to two final...
I would like Kemi Badenoch, the MP for Saffron Walden in Essex, to become Prime Minister.
She's massively pro-Brexit, anti-woke, small state and low taxes.
If she wins the liberals would constantly howl in rage, like they did in America with Trump.