Tory Leadership Vote Round 2 Results Are In

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak again topped the poll with the support of 101 MPs, while Portsmouth MP Penny Mordaunt beat Liz Truss into second place with 83 votes to Truss’s 64. Moderate favorite Tom Tugendhat survived expulsion apparently by rallying MPs who had voted for Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi, who were kicked out in the first round. The table after the second round is as follows: Rishi Sunak – 101 Penny Mordaunt – 83 Liz Truss – 64 Kemi Badenoch – 49 Tom Tugendhat – 32 The disqualified candidate is: Suella Braverman – 27 The results from the first round, held on Wednesday, were: Rishi Sunak – 88 Penny Mordaunt – 67 Liz Truss – 50 Kemi Badenoch – 40 Suella Braverman – 32 Tom Tugendhat – 37 The two disqualified candidates were: Jeremy Hunt – 18 Nadhim Zahawi – 25 The MPs are going to vote down and continue to eliminate more candidates, until there are only two left. The latter two will be put to the wider Tory membership, who will elect the new leader – who will become Britain’s new prime minister.