Three Conservative leadership candidates remain after Kemi Badenoch was eliminated on Tuesday.
Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, and Liz Truss will proceed onto the fifth ballot on Wednesday when the final two contestants will be selected.
Sunak remains the front runner with 118 votes, picking up only three of the 32 floating votes after Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Tugendhat was knocked out of the race on Monday.
Mordant secured 92 votes from Conservative MPs, appearing to gain 11 votes from the Tugendhat camp while losing the vote of Tobias Ellwood, who’s banned from voting after he was stripped of Conservative Party membership on Tuesday for abstaining in a confidence vote in Johnson’s government….
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