British lawmaker Mel Stride became the second candidate to be kicked out of the Conservative Party leadership contest. That leaves four contenders still running to lead the party after its catastrophic election defeat. Stride garnered just 16 votes in a ballot of Conservative lawmakers, finishing last of five contenders.
FILE - Britain’s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride leaves after a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, March 19, 2024. The four remaining contenders – Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat -- will make pitches to delegates at the Conservative Party conference in early October, after which lawmakers will whittle their number down to two.
Badenoch, a former business secretary, got 28 votes, while former foreign secretary Cleverly and ex-security minister Tugendhat each received 21 votes.The UK’s Conservatives eliminate a former interior minister in their leadership vote, in mid-2022, saw members choose Liz Truss over Sunak. Truss resigned after just 49 days in office when her tax-cutting plans rocked the financial markets and battered the value of the pound. The party then chose Sunak to replace her.
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