The Conservative Parliamentary Party Is Running an Accelerated Leadership Contest

Candidates can start gathering in nominations from MPs now. We will find out who is in the running on Monday afternoon at 2pm. To be successful, a candidate has to have at least 100 MPs backing them. Because there are only 370 odd Tory MPs in Parliament, that means the maximum number of MPs in the field will be 3 - and it could be less than that. There will be a private hustings among MPs after the close of nominations. And then the Tory party members themselves will have an online vote.