🔴 NEW: Liz Truss to launch campaign as second round of voting gets underway
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🔴Lord David Frost, the former Brexit chief negotiator, has told Talk TV he would have "grave reservations" about Penny Mordaunt becoming Prime Minister
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➡️How does Liz truss fare against the other contenders?
Ahead of her formal campaign launch at 10am, The Telegraph take a look at how foreign secretary Liz Truss stacks up against the other seven runners and riders for leader of the Conservative party
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🔴Liz Truss has launched her leadership bid.
"I will campaign as a Conservative, and I will govern as a Conservative. I can lead, I can make tough decisions, I can get things done.
"I am ready to be Prime Minister from day one"
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🔴Liz Truss has vowed that she will “be bold” with the economy, as she attempts to regain momentum to get to the final two candidates for leader
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➡️Tom Tugendhat said he would not withdraw from the Tory leadership race despite coming fifth in the first round of voting.
He said picking up 37 votes as a backbencher showed there was an appetite for a "clean start"
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🔴Lord Frost is understood to be privately urging Suella and Kemi to drop out and back Liz Truss for leader of the Conservatives
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Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat have signed up to levelling up pledges, including appointing a Minister for the North who attends cabinet
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As reported yesterday by the Telegraph, the Government's motion of confidence in itself has now officially been tabled for Monday in the House of Commons
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🔴Suella Braverman has refused to stand aside for Liz Truss or Kemi Badenoch as she faces dropping out of the race now that voting has closed.
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🔴Suella Braverman has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership race, leaving five candidates to head into the next round
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➡️The ballot results in full
Rishi Sunak - 101 (up from 88)
Penny Mordaunt - 83 (up from 67)
Liz Truss - 64 (up from 50)
Kemi Badenoch - 49 (up from 40)
Tom Tugenhadt - 32 (down from 37)
(Eliminated) Suella Braverman - 27 (down from 32)
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🗣️ Suella Braverman says Penny Mordaunt doesn't stand up for women
Braverman told Sky News: "I disagree with Penny on some key issues... i.e. the maternity Bill that was passed for my benefit when I had my baby last year"
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🔴 All five candidates will take part in tomorrow's debate
📺 Channel 4 have confirmed that the candidates will take part in its debate on Friday night, with further televised clashes scheduled for Sunday and Monday
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