A New Era Begins Part II

Well, after all the head scratching here I second guessed the short term situation right where Boris Johnston continues in office on the understanding from the temporary cabinet they are not to introduce any major new legislation effectively tieing an incoming Prime Ministers hand.

That was without an attempt by former Prime Minister John Major to persuade people to have him removed and an attempt by the opposition to pass a "no confidence measure" in him.

This basically takes us to the selection process where around eleven announced they were going to stand although one dropped out  on Wednesday.

The way this runs is this

Candidates could only enter the race if they had the backing of twenty Tory MPs, that reduced the number of candidates down to ten.

On the first of two rounds of voting only conservative MP's can vote and each candidate needs to secure at least thirty votes to go through to the next round.

The next round sees the candidate with least vote eliminated and this is repeated until just two candidates remain.

It then opens up to Conservative Party members.

Round one vote of MP's.

Eliminated Jeremy Hunt with eighteen votes

Eliminated Nadhim Zahawi with twenty-five votes.

Going through to Round One

Suella Braverman with thirty-two votes

Tom Tugendhat with thirty-seven votes

Kemi Badenoch with forty votes

Liz Truss with fifty votes

Penny Mordaunt with sixty-seven

Rishi Sunak in the lead with eighty-eight votes.

So Eight went through later onto Round two stage one on Thursday

 

Round two first elimination Results:

Tom Tugendhat with thirty-two votes (Rank: fifth)

Kemi Badenoch with forty nine votes (Rank forth)

Liz Truss with sixty four (Rank: third)

Penny Mordaunt with eighty-three  votes (Rank: second)

Rishi Sunak in the lead with One hundred and One (Rank: first)

Suella Braverman with Twenty seven votes - Eliminated

Now down to five candidates for next elimination next week.