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Channel 4 to broadcast Conservative leadership debate on Friday

Channel 4 to broadcast Conservative leadership debate on Friday
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Channel 4 will air the first live televised debate between the contenders to be the new Prime Minister this Friday.

Channel 4 will be the first off the mark to broadcast a live television debate between the contenders to take over as leader of the Conservative Party and become the new Prime Minister of the UK.

A process is currently underway to find a new PM following Boris Johnson's decision to resign last week, and the parliamentary Conservative Party is whittling down the field of contenders to just two.

Those final two candidates will then go head to head in a postal ballot of the party's roughly 160,000 members, with the result due to be announced on September 5.

Earlier today Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi were eliminated from the race, leaving six contenders - ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak, foreign secretary Liz Truss, trade minister Penny Mourdant, attorney-general Suella Braverman, foreign affairs select committee chair Tom Tugendhat and former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch.

At least one more candidate will be eliminated on Thursday, then on Friday the remaining candidates will take part in a 90-minute Channel 4 debate, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy in front of an audience of floating voters, from 7.30pm.

Further debates will then be broadcast on ITV on Sunday night and on Sky News on Monday.

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