11 conservative politicians announced that they wanted to be the next prime minister, but finding the support of at least 20 MPs was a stumbling block.
The number of candidates for the leadership of the British Conservative Party and the next prime minister has shrunk to eight. According to the rules agreed by the party, those who want to run had to get at least 20 MPs to support them by evening UK time.
After the time limit was met, they fulfilled the condition Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat and Nadhim Zahawi.
Three politicians who expressed their interest in the race, Rehman Chishti, Sajid Javid and Grant Shappshad to leave the game.
Next comes the votes of the Conservative Party’s MPs, which are used to narrow down the group of candidates. In the first vote tomorrow afternoon, each candidate must receive the support of at least 30 MPs to advance to the second round of voting, which is on Thursday.
After that, the person with the fewest votes is always dropped until only two candidates remain. Of these two, the party’s approximately 200,000 members get to vote for their favorite.
The first phase of the selection is to be over by July 21, and the second phase, i.e. the member vote, by the beginning of September.
The person who gets the most votes in the member vote becomes the leader of the party and becomes the new prime minister. The name of the new prime minister will be announced on September 5.