Conservative MPs have whittled down the six leadership candidates to the final two – and now the vote goes out to the party membership. Over the next three weeks, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick will fight it out up and down the country.

Polling expert John Curtice believes neither Kemi Badenoch nor Robert Jenrick will be able to win back voters and lead the Tories to electoral victory. The long race to replace Rishi Sunak as the Conservative Party leader is now in its final round and party members have until the end of the month to vote for one of the two remaining candidates.

The contest for a new Conservative Party leader is nearing its conclusion, with Tory MPs this week voting for Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick as the final two contenders in the race to replace Rishi Sunak,