Boris Johnson was lagging behind, as was Penny Mordaunt
Rishi Sunak has reportedly become the 'first Conservative party leadership candidate to secure the backing of 100 MPs'.
Mr Johnson was flying back from his holiday in the Dominican Republic last night to enter the race and attempt an extraordinary comeback. Sky News photographed the ex-PM and his wife Carrie Johnson on an overnight British Airways flight back from the Dominican Republic with their children and said the MP received 'one or two boos' as he boarded.
Mr Rees-Mogg added: "I’m always in favour of the members deciding the leadership – I think that’s the right place for it to go. And I think the 1922 Committee and the Board of the Tory Party have done really well to get it to a position where that can be done swiftly. I’m in favour of it going to the membership."
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