358. there were too spoiled ballot papers. a number of votes cast for each candidate is as follows, mordant, 105, scenic, 137, trust, 113. therefore, rishi sunak and liz truss will be the final candidates going forward to a final ballot of conservative party members. ballot will close on the 2nd of september, and i will announce the results on monday the 5th of september. it feels like quite a long time to wait until we know who is the next tory party leader and prime minister, but the party membership have to vote throughout the summer. the balance will be going out to them quite soon, between august the 1st and august the 5th, and a lot of them are expected to vote quite early, so there isn t an awful lot of time for a rishi sunak and liz truss to get
the results at 12:30pm on monday the 5th of september. rishi sunak compared. list trusts had 27 votes. that was enough to push any mordant out of the running. the candidates have wasted no time in putting out their messages as they start their campaign to win over their party s rank and file. let s hearfrom both of them now. who is the best person to defeat the labour party at the next election, and i believe i m the only candidate who can do that. my values are also those of our members, and i got the experience of the vision translate those values. i m
candidate is as followed. penny mordaunt, 105. rishi sunak, 137. liz truss, 113. therefore, rishi sunak and liz truss are the candidates going forward to a final ballot of conservative party members. the ballot will close on the 2nd of september, and i will announce the result at 12:30pm on monday the 5th of september. the choice between rishi sunak and liz truss now falls to members of the conservative party. so let s look at how that happens. both candidates will face tory members at hustings around the country in the next few weeks. the exact size of the conservative party is unknown, but there were around 160,000 members at the last leadership election in 2019. these members will submit their choice by an online or postal vote. and the new prime minister, either rishi sunak or liz truss, will be announced on
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