Sky News is organising a live head-to-head debate as part of the Conservative leadership election contest.

The two final candidates in the battle for Number 10 will take part in a live debate with a studio audience made up of Conservative voters at Sky’s west London Studios.

This will be a major cross-platform national event broadcast live on TV and Sky News’s various digital and radio platforms.

The programme will be available to all other media and presented by Kay Burley.

There are currently 10 confirmed candidates in the Tory leadership race, including Environment Secretary Michael Gove, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and International Development Secretary Rory Stewart.

Former cabinet ministers Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey have also announced their candidacies, as well as current housing minister Kit Malthouse.

The race for Number 10 began when Theresa May announced last week she will resign as Conservative Party leader on 7 June.

She will continue as prime minister until the process to elect her successor is complete.

It follows her failure to convince enough MPs to back her Brexit withdrawal agreement, and the subsequent rejection of a new compromise offer – aimed at winning over Labour MPs – by her senior cabinet ministers.

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