Runners and Riders - and then there were ten

With the news that Grant Shapps has withdrawn from the Conservativee leadership race and declared his support for Rishi Sunak, while Jacob Rees Mogg and Nadine Dorries hve declared for Liz Truss, the declared support from MPs for leadership candidates appears to be as follows:


Rishi Sunak – 36

Mark Harper, Jacob Young, Angela Richardson, John Glen, Laura Trott, Mark Spencer, Claire Coutinho, Kevin Hollinrake, Paul Maynard, Robert Jenrick, Bob Neil, Liam Fox, Mel Strive, Oliver Dowden, Simon Jupp, Bim Afolami, Simona Hoare, Louie French, Greg Hands, Ruth Edwards, Rebecca Pow, Andrew Murrison, Fay Jones, Peter Gibson, Helen Whately, Maria Caulfield, Craig Williams, Robert Goodwill, James Carlidge, Simon Hart, Gareth Davies, Siobhan Baillie, Garry Streeter, Laura Farris – and now Grant Shapps


Penny Mordaunt – 20

John Lamont, Nicola Richards, Michael Fabricant, James Sunderland, Duncan Baker, Theo Clarke, Caroline Dineage, Andrea Leadsom, Kieran Mullan, Charles Walker, Alicia Kearns, Craig Tracey, Harriet Baldwin, Damian Collins, James Gray, Elliot Colburn, Caroline Ansell, Robbie Moore, George Freeman, Derek Thomas, Maria Miller


Tom Tugendhat – 17

Damian Green, Aaron Bell, Jake Berry, Paul Holmes, Karen Bradley, John Stevenson, Robert Largan, Stephen Hammond, Robert Syms, Anne-Marrie Trevelyan, Mark Logan, Anne Marie Morris, Chris Green, Nickie Aiken, Damian Moore, Mark Pawsey, James Daly


 Liz Truss - 17

Alec Sherbrooke, Dehenna Davison, Wendy Morton, Vicky Ford, Jackie Doyle-Price, Julian Knight, Rob Butler, Chloe Smith, Dean Russell, Marcus Fysh, Darren Henry, Ranil Jayawardena, Simon Clarke, Therese Coffey, Kwasi Kwarteng, Nadine Dorries, Jacob Rees-Mogg


 Nadhim Zahawi - 13

Jonathan Gullis, Maggie Throup, Paul Scully, Sara Britcliffe, Tobias Ellwood, Jack Brereton, David Johnston, Amanda Milling, Brandon Lewis, Michelle Donelan, Mark Fletcher, Mark Jenkinson, Jesse Norman


Kemi Badenoch – 13

Lee Rowley, Lee Anderson, Eddie Hughes, Julia Lopez, Tom Hunt, Ben Bradley, Justin Tomlinson, Gareth Bacon, Caroline Johnson, Andrew Lewer, Neil O'Brien, Michael Gove, Leo Docherty


Jeremy Hunt - 13

Philip Dunne, Steve Brine, Dan Poulter, Andrew Mitchell, Anthony Magnall, Crispin Blunt, Oliver Heald, Philip Davies, David Morris, Esther McVey, Peter Bottomley, Daniel Kaczynski, Jonathan Dangly


Suella Braverman – 11

Desmond Swayne, Jason McCartney, Robin Millar, Henry Smith, Steve Baker, Julian Lewis, John Hayes, Richard Drax, Philip Hollobone, Danny Kruger, David Jones


Sajid Javid – 10

Rachel Maclean, Chris Philip, Sadiq Bhatti, Robin Walker, Ed Argar, Mike Wood, Steve Double, Mary Robinson, Rob Halfon, Jeremy Wright.


Nominations close at 6pm today and candidates need twenty nominating signatures. The majority of Conservative MPs have not yet publicly declared who they are backing. I suspect most of the candidatse listed above will manage to secure twenty signatures by this evening but some may not manage it.


UPDATE

Home Secretary Priti Patel who had been considering a bid has confirmed that she is not standing: the BBC say they have confirmation that Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt (obviously from the above) have been joined by Tom Tugendhat in reaching the 20 nominating supporters to be eligible to stand.


If my twitter and WattsApp feeds are anything to go by, the candidates doing best among party activists are Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch.

Comments

Jim said…
what we see unfolding here is the exact reason for demand 3.

3. Separation of powers:
The executive shall be separated from the legislature. To that effect, prime ministers shall be elected by popular vote; they shall appoint their own ministers, with the approval of parliament, to assist in the exercise of such powers as may be granted to them by the sovereign people of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; no prime ministers or their ministers shall be members of parliament or any legislative assembly;
Chris Whiteside said…
Well, that's a point of view, and the constitution of the United States of America system does work almost exactly like that - indeed I think that could almost be a quote from the relevant clauses of the United States constitution except that it refers to Prime Minister rather than President and that they have a more confederal system.

It's a perfectly legitimate way to organise a democratic political system but I'm not convinced that it works better than the parliamentary system without such a strong separation of powers currently used in Britain and most other democracies.

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