Rishi Sunak will be the UK’s next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the contest.
Ms Mordaunt had been the only other MP left in the race after Boris Johnson dramatically withdrew on Sunday night.
But she faced an uphill battle to secure the 100 nominations needed to stay in contention.
She had just 24 declared supporters.
By mid-morning the writing appeared to be on the wall, when one of those, former minister George Freeman, appeared to openly call on her to pull out for the sake of party “unity”.
Team Morduant battled on however, claiming that they had now secured 90 supporters, although the list of those who had done so publicly barely rose.
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