Breitbart The first round of voting for the Conservative Party leadership election, which will also decide the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has seen Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi eliminated after they failed to reach the threshold of 30 votes each.
Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee which is the body responsible for handling leadership challenges, amid other roles, announced the results of the first spill Wednesday evening which saw two of the eight candidates eliminated.
Badenoch â 42 votes
Braverman â 32 votes
Hunt â 18 votes
Mordaunt â 67 votes
Sunak â 88 votes
Truss â 50 votes
Tugendhat â 37 votes
Zahawi â 25 votes
Under the rules of the competition, any candidate that did not gain the votes of 30 of their 357 Conservative colleagues in the House of Commons was rejected, which saw Jeremy Hunt and Naghim Zahawi rejected, with 18 and 25 votes apiece…
