(ANSA) - LONDON, JULY 20 - Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Minister Liz Truss have a two-way challenge to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory leader and future British Prime Minister.
This was established by the fifth and last manuscript conducted today among the deputies of the majority party with the elimination of the former Defense Minister Penny Mordaunt overtaken by Truss in second place behind the former Treasury Minister, who maintained the first position.
The results were communicated by the chairman of the 1922 Committee, the electoral body within the conservative group in the House of Commons, Graham Brady: Sunak obtained 137 votes, Truss 113 and Mordaunt 105. The head of the Foreign Office managed to overtake to take second place only at the last preliminary and very narrow scrutiny.
The final challenge between the two big players of the Tory team only reaffirms the initial predictions that saw Sunak eTruss as favorites in the race for leadership.
Now space will be given to the rallies of the two suitors in front of the party activists, then in the second half of August there will be the postbus of about 160,000 members and then the final result on 5 September, with the name of the new British Prime Minister.
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