Tom Tugendhat has been eliminated from the Prime Ministerial race after Tory MPs voted in the third round of the Conservative leadership contest.

Tugendhat was a bit distinct of a candidate in ceratin aspects. Tugendhat, unlike the majority of the other candidates, did not serve in Boris Johnson’s government. Tugendhat, unlike other leaders, has had no reason to excuse Partygate and other misdeeds.

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Tugendhat, a politician who defines himself as clean, had promised an unwavering focus on the cost-of-living crisis. Tugendhat, the most left-wing of the five Conservatives in the race, was eager to cut taxes. “Taxes, bluntly, are too high,” he remarked.

Tugendhat, a former soldier, promised to take the British people out of the growing cost-of-living function. Tugendhat, a renowned backbencher, made headlines last year when he condemned the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan’s capital. “This does not feel like defeat, but at the moment it damn well feels like it,” Tugendhat had said.

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Monday topped the latest round of voting among the Conservative Party members of Parliament as the race to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister narrowed down to four.

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In the third round of voting, the British Indian former finance minister received 115 votes, with Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt coming in second with 82 votes, followed by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss with 71 votes and Kemi Badenoch with 58 votes.

The next round of voting is anticipated to take place on Tuesday, with ballots scheduled until only two candidates are in the running by Thursday.

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The final two will then hold hustings up and down the UK to win over the Conservative Party’s membership of around 160,000 eligible voters to cast postal ballots in their favour.

The winner of that ballot will go on to be elected the new party leader and take over from caretaker Boris Johnson as the new British Prime Minister by September 5.