The former Home Secretary has leapfrogged his ex Immigration Minister in popularity with party members, the Conservative Home website found.
James Cleverly has overtaken rival Robert Jenrick for the first time in a new leadership survey by grassroots Tories.
However Mr Cleverly, who has faced criticism for opening talks on the handover of the Chagos Islands when he was Foreign Secretary, remains behind Kemi Badenoch. The ConHome survey of 784 party members was carried out on Thursday and Friday, after the gathering of the faithful in Birmingham ended. He is widely expected to be eliminated when Tory MPs narrow the field to three on Tuesday, before another round of voting that will decide the final two on Wednesday.
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