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According to the Times Johnson is trying to stop Sunak from replacing him and is telling those who have been defeated in the race to support anybody else. This is from the report: The prime minister has said he will not endorse any leadership candidates or publicly intervene in the contest. He is understood, however, to have held conversations with failed contenders to succeed him in which he made clear his view that Sunak should not become prime minister. This…

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“Liar”. “Untrustworthy”. “Corrupt”. The highlights of a recent Boris Johnson word cloud. They are the reason the Tory party is choosing a new leader. That and the fact that he no longer appears to be an election winner. (We will come to that later.)  So how has Penny Mordaunt, now in a good second place after two voting rounds, chosen to present herself? Well, she has got herself into quite the tangle over her record as a Minister and her…

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In the betting Mordaunt is still odds-on Today I wonder whether we could see withdrawals that would shorten this stage of the process. The former cabinet minister in TMay’s government looks in a very strong position but things can happen in leadership races. My guess is that we could start to see some parts of the media starting to dig to see if they can find out something negative about Mordaunt. For she is relatively unknown outside Westminster and her…

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The actual results were Badenoch: 40 Braverman: 32 Hunt: 18 Mordaunt: 67 Sunak: 88 Truss: 50 Tugendhat: 37 Zahawi:25

I plan to update this chart every hour or so on this critical day with so much happening. The odds featured as usual are based on the latest trades on the Betfair exchange.