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K. Kowduk.

Forward slash trial.

Hello and today I'm joined by Frasor Nelson and Katie Bulls.

Katie, there was a meeting last night between the Party Board and the 1922 Executive Committee.

What was decided about the Tory leadership contest that we were sort of looking at and is

there a timeline that we can start to see things progress from from here.

So you say last night, in a way the meeting was last night, but it wasn't meant to be.

It ran onto the evening because it went on for such a long period of time.

This was a five hour meeting as I understand it of the Conservative

board and the hope had been this to be the meeting where they could say here is the timetable,

we are going to potentially have nominations next week

to get your name into the race.

Then a summer where you want to go on holiday, you can.

If you want to go on holiday at various Tory associations you can take your pick there will be a

competitive advantage for some and then when MPs returned after the summer recess in

September you would have the knockout stages ahead of either a candidate being picked

just before the party conference or having an over party conference where you would have

for example the final hustings on the first night the Sunday voting on the Monday a winner announced on the Tuesday and the leader's speech on the Wednesday.

Now this is what I think many in the party board want to happen. I think is what many around Rishisunak want to happen. The problem is there are lots of Tory

MPs and Tory candidates who are thinking about running for this with different views. And it seems the 22 committee before the Conservative

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