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The Latest Breaking News from Liz Truss

Rishi Sunak wins first Tory leadership ballot but Penny Mordaunt has momentum

Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi are knocked out of race in first ballot of Tory MPs

The Independent UK

Tory leadership vote: The first round results in full

How many MPs voted for each candidate and who will go through to the next round

The Independent UK

Six Tory candidates left in leadership race after first ballot

Two MPs were eliminated from the contest after the first round of voting

Manchester Evening News

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Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi eliminated from Tory leadership race after first round of election

Candidates needed the backing for 30 Conservative MPs to get to the next round of the contest which is due to take place on Thursday.

Daily Record

6 Tory leadership candidates through first round with Hunt and Zahawi both out

In an evening of high drama at Westminster, Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt stormed into a strong second place alongside Rishi Sunak - but she could be replaced by Liz Truss on the final ballot if the right unite around her

Daily Mirror

Only 11 per cent of public can name Penny Mordaunt and some mistake her for Adele, poll finds

A few respondents to the SavantaComRes poll thought the MP was popstar Adele - when asked to name the politician from their photo

The National (Scotland)

Public still ‘unfamiliar’ with most Tory leadership candidates – poll

An Ipsos survey found some candidates were barely more well known than a fake MP created by the pollster.

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss vows to halt green levies as fears grow over Tory net zero promise

Foreign secretary wants to look again at ‘best way of delivering net zero’

The Independent UK

No 10 denies running ‘stop Sunak’ smear campaign as Boris Johnson allies attack

The Conservative leadership battle grew increasingly bitter as voting drew close

Evening Standard

No 10 denies running ‘stop Sunak’ smear campaign as Johnson allies attack

The Conservative leadership battle grew increasingly bitter as voting drew close.

The Independent UK

Who is backing who? 180 Tory MPs pledge their vote in leadership contest

Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss still lead the way as the first round of the vote looms.

The Independent UK

The Northern Agenda: 'We need a Minister for the North'

Senior Tory's demand to leadership candidates as race to be the next PM hots up

Manchester Evening News

Boris Johnson boasts he's 'proud' and quits with 'head held high' in shameless PMQs

The Prime Minister showed no remorse for years of sleaze and scandal in a defiant PMQs session with Keir Starmer - and even suggested he could skip next week's final clash ever

Daily Mirror

Tory leadership: Hardline Brexiteers split over which candidate to back

Top MPs in the European Research Group at odds over Liz Truss and Sue Braverman

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Tory leadership election plunges into bitter spats and lurches right as MPs hold key vote

Right-wingers were splintering this morning between Liz Truss and 'woke warrior' Suella Braverman as policies tilted further to the right all the time - and TWO candidates quoted Margaret Thatcher

The Guardian - UK

Tory MPs are more focused on who they don’t want as leader than who they do

The two wings of the party are finding it increasingly hard to reconcile and are coalescing around ‘Stop Rishi’ or ‘Stop Liz’, says Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham says 'we need to start demanding a General Election' as he slams Prime Minister candidates for 'abandoning' levelling up

The Mayor of Greater Manchester said the current leadership bid promises would see levelling up 'dead in the water'

The Independent UK

Liz Truss ‘prepared to withdraw’ UK from European Convention on Human Rights

Foreign secretary tells Tory MPs she would quit if necessary

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The Independent UK

Tory leadership: Who are the candidates and what did they do before politics?

What job did the candidates do before they became an MP, where were they educated, and who were their parents?

Bristol Post

Sajid Javid quits bid to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minster candidate list announced

The MP, who was raised in Bristol, will not appear on the leadership ballot paper

The Guardian - UK

Hunt backs Sunak’s campaign after losing out in first ballot – as it happened

Latest updates: Former health secretary failed to get the required 30 nominations, along with the chancellor Nadhim Zahawi

Evening Standard

Now Tory hopefuls fight to be ‘heir to Margaret Thatcher’

Big guns trade blows on day of first crunch vote in Tory leadership contest

The Independent UK

Frontrunner Sunak targeted by rival campaigns as Tory contest heats up

Allies of Liz Truss have taken aim at the ex-chancellor as MPs prepare to vote in the first round of the contest to become the next prime minister.

The Independent UK

Nadhim Zahawi would ‘certainly’ give Boris Johnson job in cabinet

Tory leadership contender’s unsual pledge comes as Jacob Rees-Mogg says he would refuse to serve in a Rishi Sunak government

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps denies ‘dirty tricks’ by Rishi Sunak’s Tory leadership campaign

Transport minister also dismisses Jacob Rees-Mogg’s claim that Sunak was a ‘socialist chancellor’

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