Former chancellor Rishi Sunak claims to have the support of between 80 and 100 MPs, though only a handful have declared their support publicly
Sir Charles Walker, Tory MP for Broxbourne, is on the BBC’s Today programme.
Walker, who was also acting chair of the 1922 Committee during the 2019 leadership election, says a limit could be set on the number of candidates if too many look likely to run.
The out-turn of the final two to go before the membership will be the 21st July I suspect, which is when the House rises.
[When] the final two names go to the membership, the only ways you can truncate that process…is if one of the candidates pulls out, as happened in 2016 with Andrea Leadsom, or the second way…the party chair says we’re not having regional hustings, we’re just going to send ballot papers out to the membership.
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