Penny Mordaunt attacks Tory leadership rivals ahead of MPs’ final vote

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• Sunak won 118 votes on Tuesday,

• the gloves came off.

• Liz Truss will not be able to win a general election and would put MPs’ seats at risk,” a Mordaunt aide said.

• Mordaunt’s campaign claimed that foreign secretary Liz Truss could not win a general election and that if she became prime minister Tory MPs risked losing their seats.

• After Wednesday’s vote, about 150,000 Conservative activists will vote on which of the two candidates they want to be their party leader and prime minister, with a result declared on September 5.

• Mordaunt herself retweeted a Daily Telegraph column by Allison Pearson with the headline: “Vote for Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss today and you’ll murder the party you love.”