The beauty parade of Conservative leadership hopefuls is finally approaching its end stages. Tory MPs have spent six weeks whittling down six candidates to two, who will now be put to a ballot of party members.
And they saved the biggest shock until last: James Cleverly, who led in the penultimate MP ballot and was the most moderate of the top three, dropped to last place in the final round, meaning it is the two candidates to his right – Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick – who members will decide between.
