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One More Tory Hopeful to Be Eliminated in the Race for No. 10

Conservative leadership candidates during Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate on July 17.

Conservative leadership candidates during Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate on July 17.

Photographer: Jonathan Hordle / ITV/Getty Images

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION (Gavin Cordon, PA Whitehall Editor)

Contenders for the Tory leadership will be whittled down to just four on Monday as MPs cast their votes in the third round of the contest to find a successor to Boris Johnson.

The remaining candidates were involved in series of bad-tempered exchanges in the latest TV debate - staged by ITV - on Sunday evening as the battle for a place in the run off ballot of party members became ever more bitter.