Liz Truss has moved ahead of Rishi Sunak as the bookies’ favorite in the race to be the next Tory leader and Prime Minister.
Our chart, updated every hour, shows an aggregation of odds gathered from various bookmakers, tracking candidates’ chances of winning the contest in real time.
The leadership campaign is now dominated by the UK’s spiraling cost of living crisis, with Ms Truss and Mr Sunak competing to offer the best policy solution.
The Foreign Secretary is the favorite in the leadership race, having led successive Tory member polls.
Candidate odds The last chance of winning for each candidate, according to the bookies
Now halfway through the leadership quest, the candidates face six more before September 5, when the winner will be announced. Voting is already underway.
Two former party leaders have warned the Tories must rally behind Ms Truss as leader or risk losing the next election.
In a joint article for The Telegraph, James Cleverly and Brandon Lewis said Ms Truss was a “unifier” whose backers represented a range of party traditions and beliefs.
They said all the evidence, including opinion polls, also showed she was the candidate best placed to beat Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer at the next election, not only across the country but also in the seats on the wall red who helped Boris Johnson get a party of 80 people. majority