Tom Tugendhat is the chair of the foreign affairs committee and an outspoken backbencher who has been a persistent critic of Boris Johnson. Seen as occupying the Tory centreground, the Tonbridge and Malling MP has pitched himself as a unifying figure to lead the party out of a period of chaos and division.
He served in the British Army for a decade and rose to the senior rank of lieutenant colonel, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
