Either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be the UK’s next Prime Minister, after coming out top in a series of Conservative MP votes that finished this afternoon.
Mordaunt defied early expectations to make it to the top three of the Tory leadership contest and even burst into favouritism with bookmakers last week on the back of a wave of momentum.
The next Conservative leader and Prime Minister will now be chosen by 200,000 grassroots Tory members after a six-week campaign between Sunak and Truss.
A supporter of Mordaunt said this match up will “be a disaster for the party” and that they will “destroy each other over the next six weeks”.
“She will say absolutely anything and Rishi is a star player for the party – you can’t take out a star player like him in a brutal tackle,” they said.
Truss will be favourite going into the six-week contest after topping a poll of Tory members by YouGov yesterday.
However, it is notoriously difficult to get accurate results from party polling.
The foreign secretary is also now the bookmakers’ favourite to become next Prime Minister going into the six-week campaign.
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