Wide-open race for Tory leadership lays bare party divisions
The Guardian says Conservative divisions were laid bare on Tuesday as a wide-open field of eight MPs made it through to the first round of the fractious contest to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
Despite the 1922 Committee setting a threshold of 20 MPs to secure a place on the ballot paper, just three of the 11 declared candidates were eliminated on a frenetic day in Westminster.
Rishi Sunak is the frontrunner among MPs by some margin, with the publicly declared support of more than 40 colleagues, but it remains unclear who will join him in the final two.
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