Senior Conservative party figures want to rapidly thin out the field of candidates to succeed Boris Johnson as bitterness between rival camps increases and a dossier attacking former chancellor Rishi Sunak was circulated.
A total of 10 candidates have formally declared their intention to stand to be the next UK prime minister, after foreign secretary Liz Truss launched her bid on Sunday night.
The process to elect the next leader will be agreed at a special meeting of the executive of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs on Monday. It will also decide the threshold for candidates to make it on to the ballot paper.
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