If you’re reading this newsletter after 6pm, I’m afraid it’s too late. Unless you’ve secured 20 nominations from your fellow Conservative MPs, you won’t be making it onto the first ballot. Perhaps you’ll get a sympathy cabinet role.
At the time of writing, three (3pm update: four) candidates have passed that threshold: Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat and most recently, Liz Truss.
