What happens in the run-off between the final Tory candidates?
5 years, 7 months ago

What happens in the run-off between the final Tory candidates?

The Independent  

In 2005, a fresh-faced 39-year-old David Cameron emerged victorious as the results of the Conservatives’ leadership contest were read out by the chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Michael Spicer at the Royal Academy of Arts. He fended off competition to become the new Tory leader from David Davis by more than two to one – attracting 134,446 votes to 64,398 in a postal vote of party members across the UK. At the 2016 leadership contest, Andrea Leadsom dramatically dropped out of the final two, making Theresa May party leader without the need of a ballot of Tory members. The month-long process involving the party members will kick off by Thursday at the latest when MPs whittle down the candidates to a final two. There will be a strict £150,000 spending limit for each candidate, and party insiders have also made clear there will be an opportunity for the wider public to question the two final candidates online.

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Another Tory leadership contender drops out as party agrees new rules to cull no-hope candidates
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