Who are advisers backing as the next Tory leader?

Second preference falls at the third

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One of financial advisers' two preferred candidates to succeed Theresa May as prime minister was eliminated from the race in yesterday's round of voting - though the other favourite remains well out in front.

That at least is the conclusion from the results of a poll of delegates at Intelliflo's ‘Change the Game' conference in London on Tuesday (18 June), in which 24% of the 430 delegates who expressed an opinion said they wanted Boris Johnson to win the Tory party leadership contest, while 19% backed yesterday's faller Rory Stewart. In common with Conservative MPs, financial advisers appeared to be much less taken by the other three remaining runners and riders, with 6% backing Jeremy Hunt and 3% each supporting Michael Gove and Sajid Javid. For his part, Dominic Raab, who was knocked out of...

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