On July 20, Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the British Conservative Party's backbench 1922 Committee, announced that Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have made it to the final ballot of Conservative members to decide who will replace Boris Johnson as the next party leader and prime minister, with Penny Mordaunt knocked out. Sunak led the last of five ballots of Tory lawmakers, winning 137 votes, ahead of Truss on 113, while junior trade minister Mordaunt was eliminated after receiving 105 votes.