Candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson have just hours to secure support from at least 20 MPs.
A winner will be picked in a postal ballot of around 160,000 Conservative Party members over summer. Party bosses have said they plan to announce the result on 5 September.
The contest so far has been dominated by the issue of taxation, with nearly all of the candidates pledging cuts to personal or business taxes, or both.Wednesday 13 JulyMonday 18 July- deadline for deciding final two candidatesMr Sunak and Mr Tugenhadt are to launch their official campaigns on Tuesday.
Mr Tugendhat, the chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, who has already said he would reverse the rise in national insurance and cut fuel duty, will pledge measures to boost economic growth. All the other candidates, to one degree or another, are gunning for his record as chancellor, and the current levels of taxation and government spending.
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