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2022 Conservative Party leadership election
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Incumbent leader

Boris Johnson


The 2022 Conservative Party leadership election is being held from July 2022 until early September 2022 to determine Boris Johnson's successor as leader of the Conservative Party.[1]

Johnson was elected to succeed Theresa May in 2019 after May had been unable to secure a majority for her Brexit withdrawal agreement. Johnson defeated Jeremy Hunt in the final round of the 2019 Conservative leadership election, and later called the 2019 general election on a platform of completing the UK's withdrawal from the European Union after losing his working majority to defections and his own suspensions of rebel members of Parliament (MPs). The Conservatives won a majority of seats in the general election and Johnson was able to pass a revised version of May's withdrawal agreement. The COVID-19 pandemic spread in the United Kingdom in early 2020. The government instituted public health restrictions, including limitations on social interaction that Johnson and some of his staff were later found to have broken in the Partygate scandal. Johnson won a confidence vote by Conservative MPs in June 2022.

From 5 to 7 July 2022, in the wake of the Chris Pincher scandal, over 50 government ministers, parliamentary private secretaries, and trade envoys resigned – the largest series of such resignations in British history – and many previously supportive MPs called for Johnson to resign; this brought about a government crisis. As a result, on 7 July 2022, Johnson announced he would resign as party leader, but said he would stay on as party leader and prime minister until a successor was chosen.[2]

Background

2019 leadership election

Main article: 2019 Conservative Party leadership election
The incumbent prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party until autumn 2022, Boris Johnson.

David Cameron resigned as prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2016 following the result of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, in which a majority of voters voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union (EU).[3] The subsequent leadership election had been expected to be between Theresa May (who had been the home secretary since 2010) and Boris Johnson (a writer who had served as the mayor of London from 2008 until early 2016).[4] Michael Gove, who had been expected to support Johnson, announced his own leadership campaign, citing doubts about Johnson.[5] Johnson withdrew from the election, which was eventually won by May.[6][7][8]

As prime minister, May began to negotiate a withdrawal agreement with the EU. After triggering Article 50, a legal process that started the UK's formal departure from the EU, she called an early general election, aiming to secure a larger Conservative majority to support her proposals for Brexit.[9] However, the result of the election was a hung parliament, with the Conservatives losing their majority.[10] In order to continue governing, May negotiated a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).[11] In December 2018, the Conservative Party triggered a vote of no confidence in May. She told Conservative MPs that she would resign after the UK's withdrawal from the EU, and before the next election. She survived the vote with 200 Conservative MPs voting for confidence and 117 voting for no confidence.[12] The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called a vote of no confidence against May in the House of Commons, which she survived by 325 votes to 306. May was unable to pass her Brexit withdrawal agreement through several Parliamentary votes, and announced her resignation in May 2019.[13]

Ten Conservative MPs were nominated in the 2019 leadership election and they were: former foreign secretary Johnson, who had served as foreign secretary under May before resigning from her cabinet, at-the-time foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, at-the-time environment secretary Michael Gove, at-the-time health secretary Matt Hancock, the government chief whip Mark Harper, at-the-time home secretary Sajid Javid, at-the-time Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom, at-the-time work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, at-the-time Brexit secretary Dominic Raab and at-the-time Development secretary Rory Stewart, and they went through sequential ballots of Conservative MPs until two candidates remained: Hunt, and Johnson. Hunt and Johnson went to a vote by Conservative Party members, which saw Johnson elected with 66.4% of the vote to Hunt's 33.6% when the result was announced by the chairman of the 1922 committee Dame Cheryl Gillan at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster on 23 July 2019.[14]

2019 general election

Main article: 2019 United Kingdom general election

As prime minister, Johnson initially had a majority of a single vote. He lost this when the Conservative MP Phillip Lee crossed the floor on 3 September 2019 to join the Liberal Democrats, accusing Johnson's government of "aggressively pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways".[15] Twenty-one Conservative MPs voted to allow the House of Commons to consider a bill tabled by the Labour MP Hilary Benn that would require Johnson to seek an extension to date of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union from 31 October 2019 to 31 January 2020 if Parliament had not approved a withdrawal agreement or voted to allow the UK to leave the EU without a deal. Johnson removed the whip from the twenty-one MPs in what The Daily Telegraph described as "one of the biggest parliamentary bloodbaths in history".[16] Shortly after, Amber Rudd resigned from Johnson's cabinet and left the Conservative Party in protest, and Johnson's brother Jo Johnson resigned as a minister and announced that he'd stand down as an MP.[17][18]

Johnson sought an early general election, but was initially unsuccessful as a majority of MPs wanted to remove the possibility of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.[19] After Benn's bill became law despite Johnson's opposition, he agreed an extension to the UK's withdrawal date and negotiated revisions to the withdrawal agreement. He went on to put forward the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019, which passed and resulted in the 2019 general election.[20] The Conservative Party won a majority of eighty, with 365 seats. They gained seats in the north of England that had been held by the Labour Party for decades.[21] Five of the MPs Johnson suspended unsuccessfully stood in the election as independent or Liberal Democrat candidates.

Partygate

Main article: Partygate

Less than two months after the 2019 election, cases of COVID-19 had spread to the UK. The government instituted public health restrictions in order to reduce the spread of the disease, including restrictions on social gatherings. Beginning in December 2021, the media reported that there had been social gatherings by Conservative Party and UK government staff during public health restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These included an occasion in which Johnson and the spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom Carrie Johnson were pictured with seventeen staff members having cheese and wine in the garden of 10 Downing Street during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, which the Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson later said was a "work meeting".[22][23] Johnson admitted attending "socially distanced drinks" organised by Martin Reynolds, Johnson's principal private secretary, during the same lockdown. Johnson said he thought it was a "work meeting", while Dominic Cummings, who was an adviser to Johnson at the time, said that he had warned the prime minister against it.[24][25][26] There were other events reported involving Johnson and his staff.[27] An inquiry into the allegations was begun by the cabinet secretary Simon Case, but after it was reported that his own office had held a party in December 2020, the inquiry was passed to Sue Gray, another senior civil servant.[28] There was negative reaction against Johnson from Conservative MPs, with some calling for him to resign. Johnson said "nobody said this was something that was against the rules" and that he took "full responsibility for what took place".[29] Johnson and Rishi Sunak both received fixed penalty notices from the police.

Conservative Party rules mean that a confidence vote is triggered by 15% of MPs sending letters to the chair of the 1922 Committee, Graham Brady. There were reports that the threshold would be reached imminently in January 2022.[30] The Guardian reported that several Conservative MPs were waiting until Gray's report into the alleged parties before deciding whether to send letters to Brady.[31] The Conservative MP Christian Wakeford defected to the Labour Party on 19 January 2022, saying that Johnson and the Conservative Party were "incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves".[32] The New Statesman reported that some Conservative MPs were delaying sending letters to Brady after Wakeford's defection demonstrated that division in the Conservative Party benefitted Labour.[33] Around the same time, the Conservative MP William Wragg said that his party's whips were using blackmail and threats of withdrawing funding in MPs' constituencies in order to secure their votes.[34] Another Conservative MP, Nus Ghani, said that a whip had told her that her Muslimness was discussed when deciding to fire her from her ministerial role in 2020.[35] Wragg and Ghani were both vice-chairs of the 1922 Committee, which was said to be considering reducing the period after an unsuccessful vote of no confidence before which a new vote could be triggered from twelve months to six months. The Times reported these as all being serious threats to Johnson being able to remain in his position.[36]

Rishi Sunak, the chancellor of the Exchequer, was thought by some cabinet ministers to be "plotting against" Johnson.[37] The Times reported that his supporters were planning for him to lend votes to another candidate so that the foreign secretary Liz Truss, seen as his main rival, would not reach the final two candidates.[37] On 3 February 2022, when eight MPs had publicly announced that they had submitted letters of no confidence in Johnson, the Financial Times reported that "backbenchers estimate the actual number to be in the region of 30".[38]

After the Sue Gray report was published on 25 May, several Tory MPs called for Johnson to resign. By 31 May 17 Conservative MPs had publicly announced they had sent in a letter of no confidence to the 1922 committee. Forty-one Conservative MPs questioning Johnson's position.[39] The Times reported that one rebel believed the true number of letters to be "up to 67", with another backbencher saying 190 MPs could vote against Johnson, enough to remove him.[40][41]

June 2022 confidence vote

Main article: 2022 vote of confidence in the Conservative Party leadership of Boris Johnson

On 6 June 2022, following the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Graham Brady announced that the threshold of 54 letters of no confidence had been met and that a vote of confidence in Johnson would be held in the evening of the same day.[42] A majority of Conservative MPs voted confidence in Johnson to continue as party leader. More than 40% of Conservative MPs voted no confidence, which The Guardian described as "a larger than expected rebellion".[43]

Confidence vote of Boris Johnson
Ballot → 6 June 2022
Confidence
211 / 359 (59%)
No confidence
148 / 359 (41%)

Government crisis

Main articles: Chris Pincher scandal and 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
Boris Johnson announces his intention to resign as Conservative Party leader, 7 July

In late June 2022, the Conservative MP Chris Pincher resigned as a government whip after allegations were made that he had groped two men.[44] Johnson initially refused to suspend the whip from him, and his spokesperson defended his initial appointment, saying Johnson had not been aware of allegations against him.[45] More allegations of groping were made against Pincher. The former permanent secretary to the foreign office Simon McDonald wrote that Johnson had been personally briefed on previous allegations against Pincher in 2019.[46] On 4 July, Johnson admitted that he had known about allegations at the time he appointed him.[47] Several ministers resigned on 5 July, including the chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and the health secretary Sajid Javid.[48] Several politicians who had been discussed as potential leadership candidates, including Liz Truss, expressed their continuing support for Johnson.[49] The journalist Tim Shipman wrote in The Times that the transport secretary Grant Shapps, who had kept records of supporters in the earlier confidence vote, told Johnson that he could only guarantee 28 votes of confidence if a new vote were called.[46]

Johnson appointed the prospective leadership candidate Nadhim Zahawi as chancellor, with reports that Zahawi had threatened to resign unless he were given the role.[50] He appointed Michelle Donelan as education secretary, Zahawi's previous role.[51] Many more ministers resigned on 6 July.[52] Several Conservative MPs, including the levelling up secretary Michael Gove, told Johnson he should resign.[53] Johnson fired Gove the same day, citing disloyalty.[54] The next day, Zahawi and Donelan both called for Johnson to resign, with Donelan herself resigning from the cabinet.[55] A poll by YouGov showed that 59% of Conservative Party members wanted Johnson to resign.[56] Johnson resigned the same day, saying a new leader would take office before October 2022.[57][58] He said he would stay on as prime minister until his successor's election, while several Conservative MPs said he should step down as prime minister. Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, said he would call a parliamentary vote of no-confidence in the government if Johnson did not quickly resign as prime minister.[59]

Procedure

The current process for electing a new leader is split into three stages. In the first, a leadership contest is triggered. As Johnson has resigned, the party constitution says that he is not eligible to run in the ensuing contest.[60]

In the second, the 1922 Committee must present a choice of candidates to be leader.[60] The exact details of how this stage works is determined by the 1922 Committee, after consulting with the Conservative Party Board.[60] This stage does not apply if only one candidate is nominated, in which case that person is declared leader.[60] In 2019, Conservative MPs held a series of ballots until there were only two candidates left, with contenders excluded for receiving the least votes in each round, not meeting a quota of votes each round or otherwise dropping out.[61]

Finally, in the third stage, when only two candidates remain, Conservative party members vote between them on a "one member one vote" basis.[61][60] The candidate who achieves the most votes wins the contest.[60]

Campaign

On 6 July 2022, more ministers resigned than in any single day in modern history following criticism of the prime minister Boris Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal.[62] This resulted in Boris Johnson’s resignation statement on 7 July. Johnson appointed ministers to replace those who had resigned, some of whom were accused of being unsuitable and designed to "sabotage his successor's first weeks in office".[63] A poll of Conservative members by YouGov showed that the defence secretary Ben Wallace was the favourite to win.[64] However, on 9 July, he announced that he would not be running.[65] Wallace had been endorsed by the Conservative MPs Graham Stuart and David Mundell.[66]

Kemi Badenoch, who resigned as local government minister on 6 July, announced her candidacy on 8 July in an article for The Times in which she said she wanted to "tell the truth" and advocated "strong but limited government".[67] She worked as a banker before becoming the MP for Saffron Walden in 2017.[68] Badenoch campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) during the 2016 membership referendum.[69] The Guardian described her as being on the right wing of the Conservative Party.[68] She called the target of net zero carbon emissions "ill-thought through" and said that politicians had become "hooked on the idea of the state fixing the majority of problems".[69]

Suella Braverman, the attorney general for England and Wales, was the first Conservative MP to publicly declare her candidacy, announcing before Johnson resigned. She worked as a barrister before becoming the MP for Fareham in 2015.[70] During an ITV interview with the journalist Robert Peston, she called for Johnson to step down as prime minister but said she would not resign from his cabinet because she had a "duty and we need an Attorney in government".[71] Braverman said the task of the next Conservative leader would be to "finish Brexit, deliver tax cuts and solve our energy crisis".[72] After the first flight of the Rwanda asylum plan was stopped by an interim measure from the European Court of Human Rights, she said she had "significant reservations about our relationship with the European Court of Human Rights".[70]

Jeremy Hunt announced his candidacy in the The Sunday Telegraph on 10 July. Before he entered politics, he taught English in Japan, worked in PR and founded a publishing business.[73] He became the MP for South West Surrey in 2005 and supported the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 membershup referendum.[73] Hunt had not served as a minister in Johnson's government, but had previously served as foreign secretary under Theresa May and as health secretary for several years under David Cameron and May. He criticised Johnson for investing in infrastructure instead of "wealth creation", and proposed policies including a moratorium on business rates in deprived areas and a cut to corporation tax to 15% instead of a proposed rise to 25%.[74] He said he would maintain the rise in National Insurance rates and would not cut personal taxation until he "[got] the economy growing".[73] Hunt said he would appoint the MP Esther McVey as his deputy prime minister for "broad appeal".[75]

Penny Mordaunt, the international trade minister, announced she was running on 10 July on social media.[76] She worked in public relations before becoming the MP for Portsmouth North in 2010.[77] The Telegraph described her as a "socially liberal Brexiteer".[78] Several Conservative activists criticised her for supporting the rights of transgender, including saying that trans women are women and that trans men are men.[79] Along with Tom Tugendhat, Mordaunt was seen as a candidate who could appeal to Scottish Conservative MPs.[78]

Sajid Javid, who resigned as health secretary on 5 July saying it had become impossible to walk "the tightrope between loyalty and integrity", announced he was running in the election in The Sunday Telegraph on 10 July.[80][81] After his resignation, allies of Johnson said that Javid had argued for stronger pandemic restrictions to be applied around Christmas 2021 as well as a policy to require staff at large companies to either get vaccinated or to wear masks and get COVID tests weekly.[82] Javid said he would reverse the rise in National Insurance, temporarily cut fuel duty and cut corporation tax over the course of four years from 19% to 15% instead of a proposed rise to 25% funded by an "efficiency savings programme that would see 1% cut from all Whitehall spending, including on the NHS".[81][83][84] Before becoming an MP, Javid worked as an investment banker. He was elected as the MP for Bromsgrove in 2010 and supported the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 membership referendum.[83][84]

Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, announced his candidacy on 8 July in an article for The Times, emphasising that he had been loyal to Johnson and had not been preparing a leadership campaign "behind his back".[85] He argued against the "unnecessary continuation" of spending and restrictions introduced due to the COVID pandemic and proposed a policy platform including tax cuts and "state support to firms with high levels of energy consumption".[86] He gave a target of the UK having the largest economy in Europe by 2050 by becoming a "low-tax, low-regulation economy", citing Singapore as a country to learn from.[86][87] Before becoming an MP, Shapps operated web marketing businesses, sometimes using pseudonyms. He became the MP for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005 and supported the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 membership referendum.[87]

Rishi Sunak, who resigned as chancellor on 5 July saying government should be "conducted properly, competently and seriously", announced he was running on 8 July in a video posted to social media, writing that he would "restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country".[88] He said his values were "patriotism, fairness, hard work".[89] Before becoming an MP, Sunak had worked for an investment bank and hedge funds.[90] He became the MP for Richmond (Yorks) in 2015.[90] He had been seen as the frontrunner to succeed Johnson until early 2021.[90] News stories were published about his wife Akshata Murty using non-domiciled tax status to avoid paying millions of pounds of UK taxes and that Sunak himself had held a green card that required him to declare himself a permanent resident of the United States for six years as an MP and for a year and a half while serving as chancellor.[91] Sunak recieved a fixed penalty notice after the Metropolitan Police found he had broken COVID lockdown restrictions by attending a birthday party.[90] Conservative politicians who had supported Johnson criticised Sunak as "leading the charge in bringing down the prime minister", and Jacob Rees-Mogg called him a "high tax chancellor".[67] Sunak pledged to "crack down on gender neutral language".[92]

Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, announced his candidacy in The Daily Telegraph on 7 July, highlighting his previous experience in the British Army. He said he would reverse the recent increase in National Insurance rates and cut fuel duty.[93] Several Scottish Conservative MPs supported him, and he wrote in his leadership announcement that he would "stand up for the Union and Scotland's role within it".[94] Before entering politics, Tugendhat had served as an intelligence officer in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan conflict.[95] He became the MP for Tonbridge and Malling in 2015 and supported the UK remaining in the EU during the 2016 membership referendum. He was critical of Johnson, particularly over the fall of Kabul, and did not serve as a minister in his government.[96] The Independent described him as "something of a hawk".[97] He was seen as competing with a potential candidacy from the former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt for the support of the moderate One Nation Conservatives faction.[98]

Nadhim Zahawi, whom Johnson had appointed as chancellor of the Exchequer after Rishi Sunak resigned on 5 July, was reported to have been working on a leadership campaign with the support of the political strategist Lynton Crosby and his allies, and to have accepted the role of chancellor instead of resigning in order to "as a way to get his message across" on cutting taxes.[99] He announced his candidacy on 9 July.[100] On the same day, The Independent reported that HM Revenue and Customs were investigating his tax affairs, after the case had been transferred to them from the National Crime Agency's International Corruption Unit. Zahawi's spokesperson denied any wrongdoing and said he was "not aware of any formal investigation".[101] Before entering politics, he co-founded the polling firm YouGov and worked in the oil industry. He became the MP for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010.[101]

Several other candidates were reportedly beginning campaigns as of the evening of 7 July.[102]

Candidates

Declared

Candidate Political office Date declared Ref.

Kemi Badenoch 		Minister of State for Levelling Up Communities
(2021–2022)
MP for Saffron Walden (2017–present) 		8 July 2022 [103]

Suella Braverman 		Attorney General for England and Wales
(2020–present)
MP for Fareham (2015–present) 		6 July 2022 [104]

Jeremy Hunt 		Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee
(2020–present)
MP for South West Surrey (2005–present) 		9 July 2022 [105]

Sajid Javid 		Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
(2021–2022)
MP for Bromsgrove (2010–present) 		9 July 2022 [105]

Penny Mordaunt 		Minister of State for Trade Policy
(2021–present)
MP for Portsmouth North (2010–present) 		9 July 2022 [106]

Grant Shapps 		Secretary of State for Transport
(2019–present)
MP for Welwyn Hatfield (2005–present) 		9 July 2022 [107][108]

Rishi Sunak 		Chancellor of the Exchequer
(2020–2022)
MP for Richmond (Yorks) (2015–present) 		8 July 2022 [109]

Tom Tugendhat 		Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
(2017–present)
MP for Tonbridge and Malling (2015–present) 		7 July 2022 [110]

Nadhim Zahawi 		Chancellor of the Exchequer
(2022–present)
MP for Stratford-on-Avon (2010–present) 		9 July 2022 [107][111]

Announcement pending

The following Conservative Party politicians have been reported in the media as having prepared a campaign announcement:

Publicly expressed interest

The following Conservative Party politicians have publicly considered running as candidates in the current Conservative Party leadership election:

Potential

The following Conservative Party politicians have been speculated about by the media as potential candidates in the current Conservative Party leadership election, in addition to those mentioned in the previous section as having publicly expressed interest in standing:

Declined

The following Conservative Party politicians have publicly ruled themselves out of standing:

Endorsements

Kemi Badenoch

  1. Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield[66]
  2. Gareth Bacon, MP for Orpington[132]
  3. Ben Bradley MP for Mansfield[133]
  4. Eddie Hughes, MP for Walsall North[66]
  5. Tom Hunt, MP for Ipswich[66]
  6. Caroline Johnson, MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham[134]
  7. Julia Lopez, MP for Hornchurch and Upminster[66]
  8. Lee Rowley, MP for North East Derbyshire[66]
  9. Justin Tomlinson, MP for North Swindon

Suella Braverman

  1. Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe[135]
  2. Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset[136]
  3. John Hayes, MP for South Holland and the Deepings[66]
  4. Philip Hollobone, MP for Kettering[136]
  5. Julian Lewis, MP for New Forest East[66]
  6. Jason McCartney, MP for Colne Valley[66]
  7. Robin Millar, MP for Aberconwy[78]
  8. Henry Smith, MP for Crawley[78]
  9. Desmond Swayne, MP for New Forest West[137]

Jeremy Hunt

  1. Steve Brine, MP for Winchester[78]
  2. Philip Davies, MP for Shipley[138]
  3. Philip Dunne, MP for Ludlow[139]
  4. Andrew Mitchell, MP for Sutton Coldfield[128]

Sajid Javid

  1. Saqib Bhatti, MP for Meriden[140]
  2. Rachel Maclean, MP for Redditch[141]

Penny Mordaunt

  1. Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport[142]
  2. Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield[78]
  3. Alicia Kearns, MP for Rutland and Melton[143]
  4. John Lamont, MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk[144]
  5. Andrea Leadsom, MP for South Northamptonshire[78]
  6. Robbie Moore, MP for Keighley[78]
  7. Kieran Mullan, MP for Crewe and Nantwich[78]
  8. Nicola Richards, MP for West Bromwich East[78]
  9. Charles Walker, MP for Broxbourne[78]
  10. Craig Tracey, MP for North Warwickshire[78]

Priti Patel

  1. Scott Benton, MP for Blackpool South[145]


Grant Shapps

  1. Robert Courts, MP for Witney[146]

Rishi Sunak

  1. Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden[66]
  2. Maria Caulfield, MP for Lewes[147]
  3. Claire Coutinho, MP for East Surrey[78]
  4. Oliver Dowden, MP for Hertsmere[66]
  5. Liam Fox, MP for North Somerset[66]
  6. Louie French, MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup[148]
  7. Peter Gibson, MP for Darlington[66]
  8. John Glen, MP for Salisbury[78]
  9. Robert Goodwill, MP for Scarborough and Whitby[66]
  10. Mark Harper, MP for Forest of Dean[125]
  11. Simon Hoare, MP for North Dorset[66]
  12. Kevin Hollinrake, MP for Thirsk and Malton[66]
  13. Robert Jenrick, MP for Newark[78]
  14. Fay Jones, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire[149]
  15. Simon Jupp, MP for East Devon[66]
  16. Julie Marson, MP for Hertford and Stortford[66]
  17. Paul Maynard, MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys[78]
  18. Andrew Murrison, MP for South West Wiltshire[150]
  19. Bob Neill, MP for Bromley and Chislehurst[78]
  20. Angela Richardson, MP for Guildford[66]
  21. Mark Spencer, MP for Sherwood[66]
  22. Mel Stride, MP for Central Devon[66]
  23. Laura Trott, MP for Sevenoaks[66]
  24. Helen Whately, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent[151]
  25. Craig Williams, MP for Montgomeryshire[66]
  26. Jacob Young, MP for Redcar[66]

Liz Truss

  1. Rob Butler, MP for Aylesbury[78]
  2. Simon Clarke, MP for Middlesborough South and East Cleveland[152]
  3. Therese Coffey, MP for Suffolk Coastal[128]
  4. Dehenna Davison, MP for Bishop Auckland[66]
  5. Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock[66]
  6. Marcus Fysh, MP for Yeovil[153]
  7. Darren Henry, MP for Broxtowe[154]
  8. Ranil Jayawardena, MP for North East Hampshire[155]
  9. Julian Knight, MP for Solihull[156]
  10. Kwasi Kwarteng, MP for Spelthorne[128]
  11. Dean Russell, MP for Watford[66]
  12. Alec Shelbrooke, MP for Elmet and Rothwell[157]
  13. Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North[158]

Tom Tugendhat

  1. Aaron Bell, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme[66]
  2. Damian Green, MP for Ashford[159]
  3. Stephen Hammond, MP for Wimbledon[160]
  4. Robert Largan, MP for High Peak[161]
  5. John Stevenson, MP for Carlisle[162]
  6. Robert Syms, MP for Poole[128]
  7. Anne-Marie Trevelyan, MP for Berwick-Upon-Tweed[163]

Nadhim Zahawi

  1. Sara Britcliffe, MP for Hyndburn[78]
  2. Michelle Donelan, MP for Chippenham[164]
  3. Jonathan Gullis, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North[78]
  4. Mark Jenkinson, MP for Workington[165]
  5. Brandon Lewis, MP for Great Yarmouth[166]
  6. Amanda Milling, MP for Cannock Chase[167]
  7. Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire[168]

Opinion polling

Party members

Preferred leader

Dates
conducted 		Pollster Client Sample
size 		Michael
Gove 		Jeremy
Hunt 		Penny
Mordaunt 		Dominic
Raab 		Rishi
Sunak 		Liz
Truss 		Tom
Tugendhat 		Ben
Wallace 		Nadhim
Zahawi 		Others Don't know
6–7 Jul 2022 YouGov N/A 716 7% 5% 12% 7% 10% 8% 6% 13% 5%
20%
None of the above on 12%
Sajid Javid on 4%
Priti Patel on 3%
Steve Barclay on 1%
 9%

Nominations

The polling company Opinium Research asked Conservative Party members to select which one or two potential candidates they wanted MPs to put forward to a members' vote.

Dates
conducted 		Pollster Client Sample
size 		Michael
Gove 		Jeremy
Hunt 		Sajid
Javid 		Priti
Patel 		Dominic
Raab 		Rishi
Sunak 		Liz
Truss 		Nadhim
Zahawi 		Others Don't know
13–17 Jan 2022 Opinium Channel 4 704 12% 9% 14% 9% 13% 44% 33% 4% 10% 18%

Head-to-head

Polling firms have asked Conservative party members which candidate they would vote for under various head-to-head scenarios.

Dates
conducted 		Pollster Client Sample
size 		Jeremy
Hunt 		Penny
Mordaunt 		Rishi
Sunak 		Liz
Truss 		Ben
Wallace 		Would
not vote 		Don't
know
6–7 Jul 2022 YouGov N/A 716 23% 53% – – – – 24%
18% – 56% – – – 25%
25% – – 55% – – 20%
22% – – – 58% – 20%
– 40% 38% – – – 22%
– 34% – 40% – – 26%
– 26% – – 48% – 26%
– – 38% 43% – – 19%
– – 30% – 51% – 19%
– – – 26% 48% – 26%
13–17 Jan 2022 Opinium Channel 4 704 16% – 59% – – 9% 15%
20% – – 48% – 13% 20%
– – 49% 28% – 7% 16%

Public

Preferred leader

Dates
conducted 		Pollster Client Sample
size 		Michael
Gove 		Jeremy
Hunt 		Sajid
Javid 		Dominic
Raab 		Rishi
Sunak 		Liz
Truss 		Ben
Wallace 		Others Don't know
6–7 Jul 2022 YouGov The Times 1,687 3% 4% 4% 4% 13% 3% 3%
38%
None of the above on 30%
Penny Mordaunt on 2%
Priti Patel on 2%
Tom Tugendhat on 2%
Nadhim Zahawi on 2%
Steve Barclay on 0%
 28%

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  164. ^ Donelan, Michelle [@michelledonelan] (9 July 2022). "I've worked with @nadhimzahawi in the Department for Education, and around the cabinet table over the last 10 months. I'm backing him to be our next Prime Minister because he gets things done and delivers just like he did as Vaccines Minister 💉" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  165. ^ Jenkinson, Mark [@markjenkinsonmp] (9 July 2022). "In choosing who to back for the leadership, I need to get behind the candidate that will be a friend to Workington - one who knows the challenges new seats like mine face, and the solutions to them. For me that's @nadhimzahawi 1/2" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  166. ^ Lewis, Brandon [@BrandonLewis] (9 July 2022). "I have known @nadhimzahawi for nearly two decades. He is the most passionate advocate for opportunity for all, no matter who you are or where you come from. He delivers and gets things done. He would be an excellent leader of our Party and of our great country. 🇬🇧" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  167. ^ Milling, Amanda [@amandamilling] (9 July 2022). ".@NadhimZahawi spearheaded the roll out of a coronavirus vaccine that was the envy of the world. As a fellow Midlands MP, I trust in his proven record of delivery. I would like to see him stand to be our next leader" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  168. ^ Norman, Jesse [@Jesse_Norman] (9 July 2022). "Powering up our economy is fundamentally about aspiration, innovation, competition and entrepreneurship. Four reasons why I'm delighted to be backing the dynamic @nadhimzahawi to be our next Prime Minister" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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