The name of the new leader of the ruling Conservative Party in the UK and the Prime Minister of the country will be known on September 5, and the nomination of candidates will take place on July 12, writes SkyNews.

This was announced on Monday by Graham Brady, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of 1922, responsible for the process of electing the next party leader..

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Brady added that he hoped the process would be quick.. The first two rounds of voting will be held this week..

The official nomination of candidates will take place on July 12, and the first round of voting on candidates for leadership in the party is scheduled for the next day.

The second round is expected to take place on July 14.

The screening of candidates must be completed by July 21, when Parliament will go on summer vacation.. After that, only two applicants should remain on the lists, whose fate will no longer be determined by the deputies of the House of Commons, but by ordinary members of the Conservative Party..

11 Conservative politicians have already expressed their desire to take part in the election of the Tory leader, who will automatically become prime minister..

On Monday, members of the 1922 Committee changed the rules for nominating candidates. If earlier it was enough to support eight members of the same party, now this threshold has been increased to 20. To get to the second round, you will need to get 30 votes already.. In total, the Tory faction in the House of Commons of the British Parliament has 358 deputies..

This was done in order to shorten the time of the election campaign, leaving in this political race only those who have the best chance of winning..

According to SkyNews, Rishi Sunaku was the most publicly supported with 38 Tory MPs..

Followed by Penny Mordaunt (22), Tom Tugendhat (19), Liz Truss (15), Nadheem Zahavi (14), Jeremy Hunt, Kami Beidnock (13), Sue-Ellen Braverman (11), Sajid Javid (10), Grant. Interior Minister Priti Patel, who has not yet officially announced her ambitions as a prime minister, has already been publicly supported by nine colleagues.

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Recall that Boris Johnson resigned as British Prime Minister on July 7..

Earlier, the Financial Times assumed that the new Prime Minister of Great Britain will be elected before the beginning of September..