Who is running in the Conservative Party leadership race?
After the landslide victory for the Labour Party, the race is now on for who will lead the Conservative Party in the wake of Rishi Sunak's defeat.
Wednesday 11 September 2024 13:36, UK
The race to replace Rishi Sunak as Conservative Party leader continues.
With the party now in opposition for the first time since 2010, Tory MPs and members will choose their new leader.
Nominations opened at 7pm on 24 July and closed at 2.30pm on 29 July.
Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Dame Priti Patel, Mel Stride and Tom Tugendhat were the six initial contenders.
Nominees had to have the backing of at least 10 Tory MPs to be on the list, which will be narrowed down to four candidates through a series of hustings in September.
On 4 September, former home secretary Dame Priti lost the first vote, leaving the other five in the race.
Mr Stride was the next to be knocked out of the race on 10 September.
The candidates will be whittled down to the final two on 10 October by Tory MPs, with the winner chosen by party members through an online ballot on 31 October and announced on 2 November.
Sky News looks at who has thrown their hat into the ring and what they are offering to the party.
Mr Cleverly became the first to officially enter the contest with a post on social media, saying he wanted to "re-establish our reputation as the party who, in government, helps grow the economy, helps people achieve their goals, their dreams, and their aspirations".
The Essex MP, who was home secretary until the last election is being talked about in moderate Tory circles as a candidate who could unify the party.
Mr Cleverly is one of the Tories' most experienced former cabinet ministers, having also been foreign secretary, education secretary and party chairman.
A key part of his brief as home secretary was the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda - something he is said to have had reservations about in private, despite his denials.
He caused controversy last year - and was forced to apologise - after making a joke about date rape, which he admitted may have undermined the government's work to tackle drink spiking.
It was reported before the election that he would not stand to replace Mr Sunak, but when it came to the crunch, he was eager to put himself forward.
Mr Tugendhat was the second Tory to put himself forward, just moments after nominations opened.
The former security minister is regarded highly among the One Nation group of moderate Tory MPs.
He said the party needs to regain the British people's trust as the previous government, which he was part of, "just didn't deliver".
Mr Tugendhat also said he would consider leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if it "doesn't serve our interests" - a change in his stance seen as appealing to the right of the party.
He previously ran to be Tory leader after Mr Johnson was ousted, but was knocked out of the race early and later threw his support behind Liz Truss.
Mr Tugendhat is notable for his hawkish stance on China, although this became more muted once he entered government.
He remains sanctioned by China, who claims he - along with four other Tories - "maliciously spread lies" about Beijing's treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
Mr Tugendhat, who held his seat of Tonbridge in Kent, is also a former soldier.
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The former immigration minister was the third to announce he was running after Mr Cleverly and Mr Tugendhat.
Mr Jenrick held several ministerial roles, including communities secretary - a position he lost in one of Mr Johnson's reshuffles.
He was originally a Sunak loyalist and was appointed immigration minister, partly to keep the more right-wing Suella Braverman in check, according to reports.
However, Mr Jenrick later hit the headlines when he resigned over Mr Sunak's Rwanda bill, saying he could not continue in his post when he had such "strong disagreements with the direction of the government's policy on immigration".
By the election, he too was acting as a voice on the right of the party.
His Newark seat in the East Midlands had been fairly safe in 2019 - but the result was much closer this time.
However, his past actions - like fast-tracking a £1bn housing development proposed by a Tory donor - might come back to bite him.
Ms Badenoch, the ex-business secretary, was the final Tory to announce she was standing.
She is seen as a darling of the right and has impressed some in the party with her no-nonsense approach.
has promised to "speak the truth again" and wants to renew the party by 2030 by reconfirming "our belief in the nation state and the sovereign duty it has, above all else, to serve its own citizens".
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She said there must also be a "renewal for capitalism" to revive the economy by supporting the "ingenuity and industry of our people".
One of her strongest advocates is Michael Gove, the former levelling up secretary who stood down as an MP at the election.
He backed her when she ran in the first Tory leadership contest of 2022 following Mr Johnson's resignation. She finished fourth out of eight candidates in the first ballot of MPs, before eventually being eliminated in the fourth round of voting.
Ms Badenoch has been outspoken on issues including women's rights, equality and identity politics.
She held on to her safe seat of Essex North West in the election.