Lord Frost, who stepped down in December 2021, warns that the party must reunite under one leader and has asked Kemi Badenoch to support Liz Truss. Lord Frost’s appeal came after the second vote in the… Conservative leadership election took place on Thursday evening.
Suella Braverman is the last candidate to drop out of the race after receiving the fewest number of votes.
Ms Braverman has now said she supports Ms Truss for party leader and says “Liz will win us the next election”.
Many prominent Brexit supporters have supported Ms Braverman and are now expected to support Ms Truss in the leadership vote.
There are now only five candidates left in the leadership election.
Rishi Sunak is now in the lead with 101 votes, followed by Penny Morduant with 83 votes.
Lizz Tuss is third with 64 votes, Kemi Badenoch has 49 votes and in last place is candidate Tom Tugendhat with 32 votes.
Writing for the Telegraph, Lord Frost has said this leadership contest is for “the future of Brexit”.
He wants to support a candidate who will implement “radical reforms”.
The cabinet’s former foreign minister praised Ms Badenoch as an “incredibly exciting figure” and that Labor “would find her a tough opponent”.
He also said he cannot support the attorney general’s leadership offer, as she has not been in the cabinet and therefore “has not been tested at the highest level”.
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Badenoch has given no indication that she plans to step down and is currently still in the running.
This week, the remaining five candidates will take part in a series of televised debates this week, Channel 4 on Friday, ITV on Sunday and Sky on Tuesday.
The next round of voting, in which the candidate with the fewest votes has to drop out, will take place on Monday 18 July.
Voting takes place until there are two candidates left.
Once the Conservative Party has voted, the next leader will be announced on Monday, September 5.