After barely surviving the second round of field-narrowing votes on Thursday, Conservative Party leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat said he will stay in the race.
Tugendhat secured 32 votes from his colleagues, the fewest among the five remaining candidates, but the former soldier said he had never turned down a challenge because the odds were against him, adding, “I don’t plan to start now.”
Tugendhat confirmed he will attend all three televised debates on Friday, Sunday, and Monday, saying “candidates and our ideas should be scrutinised.”
After Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt were eliminated in the first round of votes on Wednesday, Attorney General Suella Braverman became the third candidate to be knocked out of the race after securing only 27 votes….