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Liz Truss under pressure as rivals steal march in Tory leadership race

Foreign secretary forced to regroup after trailing behind Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt after first round ballot

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt backs Rishi Sunak after elimination from Tory leadership race

Tory MPs vote for a second time on Thursday to remove the least popular candidate.

The Independent UK

Who is backing who? Tory MPs offer support as six leadership hopefuls remain

More than 200 MPs have offered public support for a candidate.

The Independent UK

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U.K.'s Conservative leader contenders pitch themselves as next Margaret Thatcher

They want to be Thatcher, but then again Johnson wanted to be Churchill.

Axios

Key dates in the Conservative leadership contest

It is expected that the field of candidates will be whittled down to two in time for the start of MPs’ summer holidays.

The Independent UK

Fainting room only at Penny Mordaunt’s swelteringly dull leadership launch

Her eyes welled up as if to make it clear she agreed with herself – and was profoundly moved by what she was saying

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership race: MPs whittle candidates down from eight to six

The Prime Minister is set to step down on September 6.

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Forget the ‘natural party of government’: these Tories are headless chickens

The leadership election is revealing a party that has no time for anything as boring as self-reflection, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership race: Who is still in the contest to be the next prime minister?

The first round of voting has taken place to decide who replaces Boris Johnson as the next Tory leader and prime minister

Evening Standard

Tory leadership: All the MPs still in the race to replace Boris Johnson as leader

Contest to succeed prime minister described by one Conservative politician as the ‘wacky races’

The Independent UK

Who Bristol region's Tory MPs are supporting for next PM in leadership contest

They are supporting a variety of candidates

Bristol Post

Tory leadership race eliminates Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi

The race is now down to the six candidates who secured 30 votes

Wales Online

Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt dumped from Tory leadership contest

The race for the Tory leadership, and the keys to No 10, tightened to six candidates on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

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

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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

Evening Standard

Tory leadership race: Six candidates scramble to lure supporters of defeated Zahawi and Hunt ahead of second vote

The six still in the contest will be further whittled down further after MPs hold a second ballot on Thursday

Manchester Evening News

Six Tory candidates left in leadership race after first ballot

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

Daily Record

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.

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Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

Tory vice-chair resigns to publicly campaign for leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt

Remarks follow YouGov poll showing clear support for minister among Conservative members

The National (Scotland)

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 Guardian - UK

Culture warrior Kemi Badenoch is already a winner with Tory right

Former minister surfing anti-‘woke’ wave is unlikely to become PM but should land plum cabinet role

Evening Standard

Mordmentum: Penny leads every candidate in Tory run-off

What does the Conservative membership want? Tax cuts? A war on woke? If the results of today’s YouGov survey are anything to go by, the answer is straightforward: Penny Mordaunt.

The Guardian - UK

How Tory hopefuls snapped up campaign web addresses well before Boris Johnson quit

Rishi Sunak denies registering Readyforrishi.com in December, months before launch of campaign

The Independent UK

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.

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