Rishi Sunak leads PM race as Boris Johnson flies back to London

Rishi Sunak has pulled up successful the contention to go the adjacent Conservative person and premier minister.

The ex-chancellor has 92 endorsements from Tory MPs truthful far, 8 abbreviated of the 100 needed, a BBC tally showed.

Meanwhile, erstwhile person Boris Johnson, with 44 backers, was poised to participate the contention to win Liz Truss arsenic helium flew backmost from a Caribbean holiday.

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt became the archetypal campaigner to declare, counting 21 supporters truthful far.

Neither Mr Sunak nor Mr Johnson person officially launched their campaigns, but this has not stopped backers declaring their support.

Late connected Friday, elder Tory MP Tobias Ellwood claimed Mr Sunak had already reached the 100 nominations needed to marque it onto the ballot paper.

"Honoured to beryllium the 100th Tory MP to enactment #Ready4Rishi," helium tweeted.

Following Ms Truss' daze resignation connected Thursday, it was announced by Tory enactment officials that different enactment contention would commencement instantly - lone a mates of months aft the past 1 concluded.