Priti Patel was the house secretary in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authorities. (File)
London:
The UK’s Conservative Social gathering management candidate Priti Patel has been eradicated from the competition after the primary spherical of voting.
Ms Patel, who was the house secretary in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authorities, was operating to succeed Rishi Sunak because the occasion’s chief. Mr Sunak stepped down from the put up after the Conservatives misplaced the overall election in July.
Former immigration minister Robert Jenricks got here out on high with 28 votes adopted by Kemi Badenoch with 22 votes. James Cleverly was within the third place as he secured 21 votes and Tom Tugendhat received 17. Mel Stride was fifth with 16 and the final was Ms Patel with 14 votes.
The subsequent vote will happen subsequent Tuesday after which 4 candidates would stay earlier than the occasion’s annual convention on the finish of September.
A number of rounds of voting will happen after the convention from October 8. The voting will final three days till there are solely two candidates left.
The MPs will then lastly select their chief, with the outcome introduced on November 2.
Throughout her time period as residence secretary, Ms Patel was recognized for her powerful stance on immigration. She led the Conservative authorities’s flagship scheme to ship some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
In her Tory management marketing campaign, she had promised to unite the occasion and get it prepared for the subsequent normal election.
