TORY MPs Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will go through to the final round for party members to decide who will be their next leader and prime minister.

In the final round of MP ballots today Mr Sunak polled 137 votes to 113 gained by Ms Truss.

The 105 votes secured by Penny Mordaunt meant that she was eliminated.

Mr Sunak gained 19 votes in the last round, with Ms Truss gaining 27 to edge out Ms Mordaunt.

Hustings will now be held around the country starting from Friday 22 July with the winner announced on Monday September 5.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer used his questions at the final Boris Johnson PMQs to highlight divisions that have surfaced in the bitter Tory leadership fight.

Sir Keir begins by prodding the PM over why Tory leadership candidates had pulled out of a Sky debate which had been due to have taken place on Tuesday night.

Mr Johnson said he was “not following this thing particularly closely,” but added that there has been “quite a lot of debate already.”

Sir Keir asked why both Mr Sunak and Ms Truss have criticised the government’s finances when they had both been members of the Cabinet.

The Labour leader said former Cabinet minister Kemi Badenoch told Mr Sunak he was handing taxpayer money directly to fraudsters in Covid-19 loans and asked if the PM thinks she is telling the truth.

Mr Johnson ignored each question by praising the record of his government.

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford attacked the PM, saying that “Downing Street is no place for a lawbreaker.”

He also highlighted how Mr Johnson was handing out personal protective equipment contracts to “cronies” and “is still under investigation because he can’t be trusted to tell the truth.”

Labour MP Geraint Davies prompted a furious reaction from the Tories after saying: “The Prime Minister will be remembered as a man of his word: let the bodies pile high — 200,000 dead.

“This is the truth they don’t like, let’s listen to the truth — 400,000 fewer people in jobs than before the pandemic if you include the self-employed, which the Prime Minister doesn’t.”

New polling from Opinium shows that Sir Keir is preferred by the public when compared to either of the final two leadership candidates.

Mr Sunak comes the closest to Sir Keir, but is still 11 percentage points behind.

Ms Truss was chosen by 32 per cent of people while Sir Keir was picked by 46 per cent.