Analysis: Research indicates party members are over 60, male and white, yet do not like the same candidates

The final decision on who the next Tory leader will be ultimately falls to the party membership, after MPs vote to narrow the candidates down to two.

This means the decision on the identity of Britain’s future prime minister will be voted on by 200,000 people, more or less. And they are not just ordinary members of the public, they are fee-paying members of the party’s grassroots with their own sets of beliefs.

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