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Tory MPs to vote again as Truss, Mordaunt and Badenoch fight for second place

Rishi Sunak’s place in the final two looked increasingly secure on Monday evening.

The Independent UK

Penny Mordaunt says she would abandon housing targets if she wins leadership race

“I will change the system. I will champion a brownfield building boom”

The Independent UK

Tom Tugendhat out of Tory leadership race as Rishi Sunak remains in poll position

Mr Tugendhat received only 31 votes in the third round of the poll on Monday

Manchester Evening News

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Tugendhat down, two to go: the Tory right is running out of time to beat Sunak

When Suella Braverman was knocked out, she begged her supporters to rally behind Liz Truss – but Kemi Badenoch snapped up more, says Katy Balls, deputy political editor of the Spectator

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak remains frontrunner in Tory leadership race as Tom Tugendhat eliminated

Penny Mordaunt clung on to second place as the contest intensifies ahead of next poll on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak remains frontrunner as fight for second place intensifies

All thoughts will already turn to the next ballot on Tuesday, with Kemi Badenoch now the candidate with the lowest share of the vote.

The Independent UK

Tory leadership: mid-table clash is chance for Mordaunt’s stalled campaign

Tom Tugendhat’s elimination leaves No 2 in race the only hopeful who is vaguely liberal and not tinged by Johnson’s government

The Guardian - UK

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Sunak widens lead in race to become UK PM after party vote

London (AFP) - Former finance minister Rishi Sunak widened his lead in the latest round of voting Monday by Conservative MPs to decide Britain's next prime minister, but the race to get in the final two tightened.

AFP

Sunak and Mordaunt ahead in contest to become Tory leader after Tugendhat exit

Tom Tugendhat was eliminated from the contest after the third ballot.

The Independent UK

Tom Tugendhat eliminated from Tory leadership race after finishing last in third round

Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch remain in the running to become the party's next leader and PM

Wales Online

Liz Truss left scrambling for votes as Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt come out ahead in third Tory ballot

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss must now look for Kemi Badenoch supporters to switch to her camp as Mourdant and Sunak open up the voting gap.

Daily Record

Truss camp says Mordaunt has ‘topped out’ with Tugendhat latest to fall

Pressure still on foreign secretary in Tory leadership race as she gains just seven new backers in latest round

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership race veers further right as Tom Tugendhat out and Liz Truss advances

Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch will now go through to the next round tomorrow before a final announcement on Wednesday at 4pm - selecting the pair who'll be voted on by Tory members

Daily Mirror

Tory leadership: From Black Lives Matter to immigration - the candidates’ stance on race

Despite a tumultuous two years following the Black Lives Matter protests, questions around the candidates’ position on race equality have been missing from the leadership race

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Talmudic sage offers a leg-up to the Tories

Brief letters: Hillel’s lesson to politicians | Penny Mordaunt’s magic past | Investing in all hospital staff | A Hungarian Latin master | Boris Johnson’s inaction

The Independent UK

Penny Mordaunt: Outside bet casting a spell on Tory MPs

Long before the implosion of the Johnson premiership, 49-year-old Ms Mordaunt had been tipped as a potential leadership challenger.

Daily Mirror

We ask Darlington voters what they think of the Tory leadership candidates

Today The Mirror spoke to people outside the Cornmill Shopping Centre about the ongoing battle for Number 10 as hadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy gave a speech in the city a raft of measures to support communities

The Guardian - UK

Cancelled TV debate underlines who Sunak and Truss are now targeting

Analysis: Well-known candidates have moved their charm offensive away from public to Tory MPs

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The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch backs net zero in Tory leadership climate U-turn

MP joins the four other candidates in saying they would not unpick UK’s environmental commitments

Los Angeles Times

Britain’s next prime minister is unlikely to be a white man

LONDON — For the first time in history, Britons could soon have a person of color as their prime minister. Even more, that person could also be a woman.

The Guardian - UK

The Tory leadership race: a 40C fever dream where 0.2% of the UK decide our next leader

We’ve had obnoxiousness, bad pitches and even worse graphics … and there’s still seven weeks to go, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

The National (Scotland)

Who's still in the Tory leadership race after third voting round sees candidate crash out

Tom Tugendhat is the latest Tory leadership candidate to crash out of the race to become the next Prime Minister.

The National (Scotland)

Tory leadership hopeful mocked for bizarre Tweets and poll boast fail

Penny Mordaunt's Twitter boasts aren't working nearly as well as she thinks they are...

The Independent UK

Where’s Boris? Johnson takes back seat as Conservatives feud

The contenders to replace Boris Johnson are scrambling to distance themselves from the scandal-tainted politician who remains Britain’s prime minister for a few more weeks

The Independent UK

Tory leadership: Penny Mordaunt will become next prime minister, Independent readers predict

48 per cent think Penny Mordaunt will win the Conservative party leadership, while 23 per cent voted for Rishi Sunak

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