Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a new podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and as the race to replace Boris Johnson heats up,

I'm joined by our political editor Adam Payne to discuss the Tory leadership contest so far.

We're also joined by Foreign Office Minister Raymond Chistey for an exclusive chat about his early tilt at the Tory leadership contest so far. We're also joined by Foreign Office Minister, Raymond Chistee, for an exclusive chat about his early tilt at the Tory leadership. So Adam, as we speak now on

Thursday morning, there are six candidates left in the race to become the next conservative leader

and therefore to become Prime Minister. We had the first round of voting on Wednesday. We saw

Jeremy Hunt and Nadim Zaharwe

both knocked out. Just run us through who the sort of six candidates we are left and kind of where

running order went in terms of who got the most votes. Yeah, so we are sat here on Thursday morning

and yesterday, Wednesday, we had that first round of voting. And the six candidates who are still

in the contest,

we have Rishi Sunak, who secured the most MP nominations. We have Penny Maudent in second,

followed by Liz Truss, then Kemi Badenock, then Tom Tuggenhardt, who Raymond is supporting.

And we'll talk about his candidacy shortly.

And finally, we have Suella Braverman.

That's your six alarm.

Interesting.

And so that field was already whittled down from where it was.

A week ago when Boris Johnson announced he was going to step down, we had a number of people

coming out.

And by Sunday night, we had a number of people coming out, and by Sunday night we had 11 people declared.

The 11th was sat opposite us now, Raymond Chistee. So Raymond, what made you make the decision

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