Tugendhat out of Tory as confidence vote in PM’s government fails
The Independent: Tom Tugendhat out of Tory leadership race after receiving just 31 votes from Conservative MPs in the third ballot.
Rishi Sunak remained in front with 115 votes, while Liz Truss managed to eat into Penny Mordaunt’s lead with 71 and 82 votes respectively, and Kemi Badenoch scored 58.
Boris Johnson’s sacked housing secretary Michael Gove earlier rejected suggestions that his support for Ms Badenoch was an elaborate scheme to take votes away from Ms Truss in a bid to help Mr Sunak’s campaign.
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