Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak leads the first three rounds of the Conservative Party leadership election

  Xinhua News Agency, London, July 18 (Reporter Du Juan Xu Feng) The third round of voting for the new leader of the British ruling Conservative Party was held on the 18th. Four candidates were allowed to enter the follow-up competition, including former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. Continue to stay ahead.

  According to the results of the vote that day, the four candidates who are eligible to continue to participate in the Conservative Party leadership race are Sunak, former Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt, Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss and the former Minister of State for Equality Affairs. Chancellor Kemi Badnoh and Tom Tugendart, chairman of the lower house of parliament's foreign affairs committee, received the fewest votes.

Sunak won the most votes in the first three rounds of voting, with Mordaunt always in second place, followed by Truss.

  On the 12th of this month, 8 Conservative Party members were supported by a sufficient number of Conservative MPs in the lower house of Parliament to be eligible to participate in the contest for the new Conservative Party leader.

In the first two rounds of voting held on the 13th and 14th, three candidates were eliminated.

  According to the election rules announced by the "1922 Committee", a group of Conservative MPs in the lower house of the British Parliament, Conservative MPs in the House of Commons will hold voting in the future until two candidates are locked before the summer recess of the Parliament on the 21st.

The election will then enter the second phase, where Conservative Party members will elect a new leader by mail-in ballots.

According to British media reports, the Conservative Party has about 200,000 members.

  The "1922 Committee" is composed of ordinary members of the lower house of the Conservative Party Parliament and plays an important role in deciding the candidates for the party leader and prime minister.

  Johnson announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister on the 7th of this month, but will remain in office until a new leader is elected.

The final results of the Conservative Party's new leader election will be announced on September 5.

That means it will be revealed on that day who will be the next prime minister.