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The timetable for the October 2022 leadership election was much shorter than the July one. An expedited process was set out; candidates were required to obtain 100 nominations from fellow Conservative MPs before 2 pm on 24 October, and an MPs' ballot followed by an online members' ballot was to be held shortly thereafter if more than one candidate received more than 100 nominations.
Ms Mordaunt, a Royal Navy Reservist, said leadership “needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship”. She has pledged a 50% cut in VAT on fuel. Campaign name: PM ...
Max McGiffen, Director of Conservative Friends of the Overseas Territories [115] Tim Montgomerie, Conservative activist, creator of ConservativeHome and co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice think tank [116] (previously endorsed Tugendhat) Ed West, writer and journalist
The candidates went through sequential ballots of Conservative MPs until two candidates remained: Hunt and Johnson. Hunt and Johnson went to a vote by Conservative Party members, which saw Johnson elected with 66.4% of the vote to Hunt's 33.6% when the result was announced by the chairman of the 1922 committee, Dame Cheryl Gillan , at the Queen ...
Rishi Sunak’s public backers have put him beyond the threshold of 100 nominations from MPs required to be on the ballot for the Tory leadership race, according to analysis by the PA news agency.
Q: Do candidates realise that focusing on Tory members might alienate general voters? RebootedyetagainHans2. A: I suspect the candidates would answer: “We have a leadership election to win first ...
The candidates for the Conservative leadership have not acknowledged “how bad things are in the country” and the Tory party, according to former prime minister Liz Truss.
The following Conservative Party politicians were suggested by commentators as potential candidates for the leadership but declined to stand: Kemi Badenoch, former Secretary of State for International Trade (September 2022 – February 2023) and MP for Saffron Walden (2017–2024) [139] (endorsed Sunak) [140]