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Arne Ahmen provides an Eighth hit for @BuffaloPhil and @msc but more importantly a fourth hit in a fourth category for @chilean way who now only needs a cabinet minister to win. James Mckay is already taken but the other four will see a cw win. I will update the outs list when I return from holiday

Alain Delon

June Lockhart

Benedict XVI

Joan Lingard a hit for me here

Yes she was on my Hare's Pool Team. She wrote the books on which the TV Series Maggie was based on

My list is as follows Tom Tugendhat (Very big gap) Rishi Sunak Penny Mordaunt (Another very big gap) Kemi Badenoch Liz Truss Suella Braverman

I will play if you host. Thanks

Be aware that I am on holiday for the next week or so and if carnage is unleashed here I will sort it all out when I get back. We may even have a winner. I will be looking in occasionally but I will be away from all my spreadsheets and data

Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Penny Mordaunt, Kemi Badenoch, Nadhim Zahawi, Jeremy Hunt and Suella Braverman have all made it onto the ballot They could all get the 30 votes to progress to the next round though. However I think the convention is the lowest polled person drops out. Zahawi?

Hunt has Esther McVey

BBC are currently saying Sunak, Truss, Mordaunt & Tugendhat at the nomination threshold Though they do tend to be a bit cautious with the updates

Is there are real time tracker with a countdown clock?

It allows them to present the party as being complicit in Johnson's corruption going forward but ultimately it will feel like playing politics unless a few Conservatives abstain because they cannot bring themselves to vote for it. Opportunistic if it were to come off However, I do feel like there is a lack of diversity (of political thought) amongst the declared candidates falling over themselves in a race to the right

Home Secretary I reckon Raab is backing Sunak so he will probably stay on as Deputy PM. Chancellor and Foreign Secretary might have to wait until there are later contest drop outs that need scooping up. I also think Sunak would want an ultra loyal pair of hands at the treasury not a failed rival

Shapps has pulled out and is backing Sunak

For those that have Twitter accounts @peoples_pop is running a world Cup style series of polls on songs about death & dying.

Yeah has been banned from every Comic-con and e-sports event in the country....

I have just used the search function on the Daily Mirror website to find out who my local Conservative MP is supporting of the declared candidates and it is not good news he is supporting Suella Braverman who is currently close to the bottom of my list of preferences

This picture was posted on a TV fan site on facebook of her travelling first class Does not yet look ripe for inclusion here

May got in because when it got down to the final two Andrea Leadsom realised she was so far out of her depth she withdrew meaning that the 'rank and file' Tory membership did not get a say (which didn't help when it came to defending her). Whether the Tory faithful would have given the reigns of power to a raving lunatic when the other option was someone who had managed to survive 6 years as home secretary and was seen as a safe pair of hands (albeit not a very brexity pair). In the ballot of MPs May scored over 50% in the first round and 60% in the second. If Gove had edged Leadsom for second place it might have been very different

My wife frequently jokes that my family are hewn from stone as we seem to have greater longevity compared to her side of the family I am currently in my early 50s I am teetotal (lifelong) and vegetarian (26 years) which I think are both things that would potential improve my potential lifespan but I was diagnosed as prediabetic last year and so have had to make several adjustments to my diet to hopefully overcome that. Though no longer working in an office where the vending machine dispenses hot chocolate for 35p per cup will also probably help.

Considering all the awful press about the various candidate flying about at the moment is it actually possible that Tom Tugendhat is actually Jim Hacker and becomes PM because everyone else it too awful

Duke of Kent not at the final as far as I can see.

This list has been circulating on Twitter but not entirely sure of the veracity of it. Alleged that it is a secret whips list from 2019 but I am not sure they would ever have it in this format so it might be extrapolated from other sources