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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are the last candidates left standing following the final vote by Conservative MPs on who will replace Boris Johnson as their leader. Sunak, the former Chancellor, topped the final ballot with 137 votes and Truss, the Foreign Secretary, overturned a narrow lead held by Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt in the latest vote, securing her place in the run-of by 113 votes to 105. Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, joins Kathryn to talk through what happens next.
