Conservative Leadership debacle continues

12.44.30pm BST (GMT +0100) Wed 28th Sep 2005

Michael Howard, the current Conservative Leader has suffered a defeat by the grassroots of the party to reform the way the new Leader will be selected. Having failed to win the two-thirds majority needed for change, the leadership contest will be held under the current rules, with MPs choosing two candidates to go to a vote of all Conservative members, a move that could prolong the contest until Christmas or beyond.

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