Tory leadership vote: When and where are the 16 hustings taking place?
BORIS Johnson and Jeremy Hunt will rally support at hustings across the UK ahead of the final Tory leadership vote. This is where and when the 16 Tory leadership hustings will take place.
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In the lead up to the final Tory leadership vote, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt will go head to head at 16 hustings around Britain. The would-be Tory leaders will hope to rally support at the events before Conservative Party members cast their ballots next month.
What are hustings?
Starting in Birmingham on Saturday, Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt will pitch their leadership plans to Conservative Party members at a series of debates known as hustings.
Hustings are meetings where candidates in an election address potential voters.
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Both the candidates will take questions from audience members after saying their bit.
When are the hustings?
The 16 hustings are scheduled to take place as follows:
June 22: West Midlands
June 27: South
June 28: South West
June 29 (afternoon): Lakes and Borders,
June 29 (evening): North West
July 4 (evening): Yorkshire and Humber
July 5 (morning): North East
July 5 (evening): Scotland
July 6 (morning): East Midlands
July 6 (evening): Wales
July 11 (evening): South East
July 12 (evening): Gloucestershire
July 13 (morning): East Anglia
July 13 (afternoon): Eastern
July 17 (evening): London
When is the final vote?
The final Tory leadership vote will take a different format to the previous ballots.
As well as MPs, The Conservative Party’s 160,000 members will be able to vote for the next Tory boss.
Members will receive a postal ballot paper between July 6 to July 8.
The deadline for voting will be in the week ending July 21.
The results of the final vote will be announced on July 22.
The candidate who wins more than 50 per cent of the vote among Party members will be declared Leader of the Party.
Theresa May’s resignation means whoever the Tory leadership battle will become Britain’s next Prime Minister by default.
Who will win?
Boris Johnson has been pitted as the favourite throughout the Tory leadership battle.
The former Foreign Secretary’s team has been accused of skulduggery after Michael Gove lost out on votes yesterday.
There were rumours of tactical voting from Boris backers keen to prevent Mr Gove from being the one to face him in the final vote.
Boris remains the hot favourite to win the leadership race.
Bookmakers Ladbrokes have Boris at 1/14 to win while Hunt is at 8/1.
Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “Johnson for PM has never looked more likely as far as we’re concerned and it’s now just a matter of when, not if, he replaces Theresa May as the Conservative Party leader.”