Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will battle it out over the next six weeks in a Tory party election campaign that will decide who the next Prime Minister will be.
The Former chancellor and the Foreign Secretary secured the two top slots after a fifth round of voting by Conservative MPs which saw Penny Mordaunt drop out.
Rishi Sunak scored 137 votes , up from 118 on Tuesday. Liz Truss was on 113, overtaking Penny Mordaunt who ended up on 105 votes, leaving just eight votes in it. There were two spoiled ballots.