London: Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has maintained his lead with 118 votes in the fourth and latest round voting in the race to replace Boris Johnson as the Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister.
He was followed by former defence minister Penny Mordaunt at 92, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at 86 and lawmaker Kemi Badenoch at 59 votes. Badenoch was eliminated from the contest.
Tory lawmakers will vote again today with the last-place challenger eliminated each time. After the fifth round of voting, the race will be taken over by the Conservative Party headquarters to organise hustings in different parts of the UK. The two finalists will go to a runoff vote by all 180,000 members of the Conservative Party and a winner will be announced on September 5.
