Campaign Update: Day 7

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Secured 88 votes in the elimination – his team will be very happy with that. The stop Sunak campaign is stalling as the right vote splits between too many candidates
A pretty turgid day for Rishi otherwise. After hogging the limelight with his campaign launch yesterday, today he resumed being the punching bag of choice for all other candidates.
Faced some horrible polling from all quarters, which shows he basically stands no chance of winning among the members if he gets through to the final two.

Secured 67 votes in the elimination – almost twice the number that had publicly declared for her
A great day for Penny – if she wins the contest, today will undoubtedly be viewed as the day she secured the victory
Her campaign launch went very well, despite making the same mistake as Sajid by holding it in a tiny, sweaty room at the Cinnamon Club.
She actually took a decent number of press questions, handling them well
Shut down questioning around her trans problem, telling the room “I think it was Margaret Thatcher who said “Every prime minister needs a Willie”‘. A woman like me doesn’t have one.”
Received a major boost from YouGov polling that shows, should she get through to the final two, she’d smash every other candidate
Remains a comfortable second among MP backers

A quiet day for Liz, though happily made it through the MP vote-off with 50 votes
Her backing numbers are the most damaged by the right wing candidate split
Vowed to halt green levies
Continued her campaign as the ‘Boris continuity candidate’

A decent result in the vote off, with 40 MP backers
Continues to gain support, not least with her former employers at The Spectator
Rejected participating in the tax cut race, saying Boris’s “cakeism” must end

Not a great showing for Tugendhat in the vote, with just 37 supporters
Called an emergency press conference on College Green this morning to attack Rishi Sunak’s refusal to commit to extra defence spending, albeit not by name