Tory leadership rules announced as battle to succeed Liz Truss begins

Liz Truss was forced to resign as Prime Minister today after just six weeks in Downing Street marked by chaos and bitter infighting

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Sir Graham Brady explains how the leadership race will unfold

Tory leadership candidates will need to have 100 MP participants by Monday to be on the ballot and succeed Liz Truss.

Tory Chairman Sir Jake Berry and Chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady confirmed details to reporters in Westminster as they kicked off the second Conservative leadership race in three months.< /p>

Nominations will end at 2 p.m. Monday, with MPs elected that day to narrow the field. Only three candidates will be able to reach the threshold of 100 deputies, because there are only 357 conservative parliamentarians.

"We have set a high threshold, but one that should be achievable by any serious candidate who has the opportunity to pass," said Sir Graham.

If three leadership candidates get the numbers, there will be a vote between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. to narrow it down to two candidates, with the result announced at 6 p.m.

An indicative vote of MPs will then take place if there are two left, to give members an idea of ​​the opinion of the parliamentary party.

Liz Truss was PM for only 44 days (

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Tory leaders came up with the idea to prevent the disconnect between Ms Truss's lack of support among MPs and her popularity with grassroots MPs from happening again.

There would then be an online vote by party members. Only eligible members, who have been members for at least three months, can vote in the contest, the party said.

Just over 172,000 Tory members voted in the runoff between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss over the summer, which Ms Truss won by 81,326 votes to 60,399.