i'm here in westminster it's blisteringly hot and the race to find the next tory leader and
prime minister is heating up too if you swivel behind me you'll see that just over there rishi
sunak and kemi badanok two of the candidates with rishi soon at the front runner have just launched
their campaigns and over there in westminster tomorrow mps are going to vote for their first
round of who gets on the ballot so tonight at 6 pm those nominations close and any mp who has not
got the support of at least 20 of their fellow tory mps will be out of the race then after that
there's a vote on wednesday just after one o'clock it will take two hours and tory mps are going to
have a knockout stage where they get rid of anyone who doesn't have at least 30 supporters now three
mps are already through at the time of recording this video to that stage we've got tom tugandat
the sort of moderate ex-military we've got penny mordent who's a kind of slightly similar uh makeup
there and we've got rishi sunak who is currently the front runner he's a former chancellor and
he's got quite a lot of mp backers you've got a whole host of other mps who are due to cross
that 20 line two so kemi badanok uh the sort of woke warrior candidate believes she's going
to cross the line so ella bravaman who is another you guessed it warrior candidate could also cross
that line and uh you've got a whole load of others like liz truss who wants the union right to unite
around her and nadine to hawaii uh who wants to who said he wants to cut sort of a fifth of all
government departments even the health service could do that you've had a maze of kind of uh
very hard line promises in this race already uh you've had kenny bader not saying she doesn't want
to give any more cost of living handouts because it's not an efficient way to deal with the crisis
and you've had uh kind of nadim sahabi pledging massive income tax cuts and all the rest of it
you've had zuelo brotherhood saying she wants to get more people off welfare despite the
fact that 40 of people on universal credit already have a job and it doesn't pay enough
for them to stop claiming universal credit so where does this all end and when the answer
is over there and then out there and very quickly so after wednesday there might only be about five
candidates left out of the original eleven we've already had one drop out this morning grant shaps
he's supporting rishi sunak so there are 10 left and the reason for that is because of this this 20
candidate threshold to get on the ballot and then the 30 candidate threshold on wednesday
to get through the first round of voting after that mps will eliminate one candidate at a time
in subsequent rounds of voting so that's thursday and then next week perhaps on monday or tuesday
and uh by next thursday july the 21st it will go out for a vote by all tory members that's about
180 000 people across the country and they will decide the next prime minister there is no need
to hold a general election over the summer you're going to see the candidates set out more of their
stores they're going to go to hustings across the country they'll be streamed live online
a lot of them are very anti-social hours lucky for us uh things like friday nights and saturdays
and you'll get more of an idea of their vision for the country so at the minute those visions
on the whole apartment couple candidates are quite hard-line quite right-wing because they are trying
to attract the support of tory mps perhaps that will moderate out over the summer or perhaps it'll
get firmer we don't know yet either way we'll have a new prime minister on september the 5th and that
prime minister could go into downing street the same day or even the very next day on september
the 6th ready for the new parliamentary term and the party conference they're trying to stop boris
johnson hanging around for too long after he lost the support of his own government and uh he'll be
gone within kind of five or six weeks where he insists he wants to fulfill his mandate of uh
leveling up so it was that you can expect not much more to actually happen in government
you