Eight candidates will compete to replace Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister and leader of the UK Conservative Party, the committee in charge of organising the leadership contest announced.
The eight candidates taking part in the contest are: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, current Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, Tom Tugendhat, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch.
Sajid Javid had announced his intention to run but dropped out of the leadership contest before the list of candidates was released.
"There is an abundance of both ideas and talent in our party. One of the candidates will be given the honour of becoming prime minister," Mr Javid said in a statement.
"I look forward to seeing the debate unfold and to see colleagues working together as a united Conservative Party once the leadership election is concluded," he added.
The first round of voting begins tomorrow.
Candidates required the support of 20 fellow MPs to make it onto the ballot.
Under the timetable set out by Chairman of the 1922 Committee Graham Brady, the first ballot of MPs will take place tomorrow, with candidates failing to get 30 votes being eliminated, with a second expected on Thursday.
The process is then likely to continue into next week, with the candidate with the lowest vote dropping out, until the list of candidates is whittled down to just two, who will go forward into a ballot of party members.
The new British prime minister will be announced on 5 September, when MPs return to Westminster from their summer break.
A poll for the Conservative Home website found former defence minister Penny Mordaunt was the most popular with members, followed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch and Rishi Sunak, whose resignation as finance minister helped bring down outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson.
"There seems to be a quite a big field at the moment, a lively contest," Mr Brady said.
"I hope we will have a very constructive contest, but (also) a really good opportunity for a proper, healthy, constructive debate about the future direction of the Conservative Party."
The battle to secure the top job comes after one of the most tumultuous periods in modern British political history, when more than 50 government ministers and aides quit, denouncing Mr Johnson's character, integrity and inability to tell the truth.
The new leader will also have to reverse evaporating support for the Conservatives. A survey by Savanta ComRes yesterday put the opposition Labour Party at 43% compared with 28% for the Conservatives, its biggest poll lead since 2013.
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Additional reporting: PA
