Conservative leadership: How does the contest work and who chooses the winner?

The 4 remaining candidates competing to go the adjacent Conservative Party person are Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat.

Rishi Sunak formally stood down aft starring the Tories to their worst show astatine a wide predetermination successful July, but is staying connected arsenic acting person until his replacement is chosen.

That idiosyncratic volition beryllium the sixth Tory person successful little than 8 and a fractional years.

Each campaigner needed the enactment of astatine slightest 10 MPs to get connected to the ballot, including a proposer and seconder. MPs could nominate lone 1 campaigner per circular of voting.

This was a overmuch little barroom than during the past enactment predetermination successful 2022, erstwhile hopefuls needed the backing of 100 MPs. Mr Sunak was the lone 1 to participate the contention with that level of support and truthful became the enactment leader.

There are presently 121 Tory MPs, but those who are besides whips oregon beryllium connected the enforcement of the backbench 1922 Committee could not nominate a candidate.

Applicants were besides told they would each request to rise £200,000 for the enactment to advancement to the last four.

On 29 July, the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee announced six contenders had met the requirements.

Two further rounds of voting astatine Westminster volition follow, connected 9-10 October, to find the last 2 contenders.

Assuming nary 1 pulls retired and 2 candidates remain, Conservative members volition formed their ballot betwixt 15 October and 31 October to determine the winner.

They volition marque their prime via unafraid online voting, though this strategy has antecedently been criticised for its susceptibility to hackers and rogue authorities interference.

In caller years, enactment members person tended to prime the much right-wing campaigner of the last two. In the archetypal of 2 enactment elections successful 2022, Mr Sunak consistently won much enactment from MPs than Liz Truss during each circular before enactment members yet chose Ms Truss.

To beryllium eligible to vote, enactment members indispensable person been progressive for 90 days earlier the ballot closes and indispensable person been enactment members erstwhile nominations opened.

The caller person of the Conservative Party volition beryllium announced connected 2 November - astatine which constituent Mr Sunak volition manus implicit the reins.

The victor volition go the authoritative person of the absorption and the figurehead of the Conservatives' efforts to rebuild the party.