Members indicate their new leader should be a competent unity candidate who preferably wasn’t in Johnson’s cabinet
- Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome
There are six challengers remaining in the race to be the next leader of the Conservative party. A week hence, there will be two. It is impossible to predict exactly what will happen between now and then, as Tory MPs, sometimes described as “the most sophisticated electorate in the world”, thin the herd.
But as things stand, there seem to be three candidates who could plausibly get into the final two: Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt.
Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome
