Rishi Sunak looks the favourite in the race to replace Liz Truss as the country's next Prime Minister. As shown by our live tracker, Sunak is the first Conservative leadership candidate to secure the backing of the 100 MPs needed to run for the seat.
Nominations opened on Thursday (October 20) and hopeful MPs have until 2pm on Monday (October 24) to put themselves forward. However, candidates will need to have received 'at least 100' nominations from colleagues to run for the leadership, meaning there will be a maximum of three contenders.
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