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The field of candidates to take over in Downing Street is set to be whittled down to a final two next week

It has been a busy week in politics - read our interactive overview on the state of the Tory leadership contest and what it tells us

RISHI Sunak thinks his biggest weakness is working too hard, while Liz Truss says hers is being too enthusiastic.

The ex-Chancellor made the embarrassing gaffe in the first public Tory leadership hustings - where his rival Liz Truss splurged tens of billions of pounds of spending in just over an hour

Alarm among green Conservatives at slow pace of candidates signing up to party environment network’s goals

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat are the other names still in the running.

As fresh claims emerged about Boris Johnson and Lord Frost attacked surprise favourite Penny Mordaunt. Ms Mordaunt hit back saying 'people are gong to try and stop me' - and a backer of Rishi Sunak said he doesn't 'give a flying xxxx' what Lord Frost says

The pair were the only remaining Tory leadership candidates to respond to questions about their plans to tackle misconduct by MPs.

The final five Tory candidates enter a war of words as the fight for votes gets nasty

A second round of voting among Conservative MPs has whittled the candidates in the running to replace Boris Johnson as leader down to five. Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, finished top with the votes of 101 Tory MPs, Penny Mordaunt, the international trade secretary, was second with 81, and the…

The ‘gallant lady’ with a sailor’s humour could bring saltiness to the race to replace Johnson