Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick topped the poll with Dame Priti Patel third (Image: GETTY)
Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch are neck-and-neck among Tory members in the leadership race, new polling shows.
The survey by Popular Conservatism puts the ex-immigration minister and the shadow housing secretary, who are both on the right of the party, level on 28%.
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Mr Jenrick is up from 23% in the group's last polling two weeks ago, while Ms Badenoch is up from 24%.
Former home secretary Dame Priti Patel, a longstanding Eurosceptic on the Tory right, remains in third place with 17%.
Centrist candidates Mel Stride, Tom Tudendhat and James Cleverly all polled under 5%, while 15% of respondents were undecided.
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Mark Littlewood, director of Popular Conservatism, said: “There’s clearly everything still to play for in the Conservative leadership election with a large number of undecided voters and no certainty at all about who will make it to the run-off.
“The next leader will need to address the disconnect between the grassroots and the Parliamentary party - there is very little confidence amongst the membership that the MPs will select the best two candidates for the final ballot.
“Immigration is overwhelmingly the main policy concern of the party members we surveyed and it’s clear that the candidates will need a compelling policy in this area in order to win over the party faithful.
“It’s also clear that the campaign has yet to really ignite. Robert Jenrick is seen, by some margin, to have run the best campaign so far but there’s obviously still a long way to go.”
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The poll of 516 Conservative members, carried out between August 14-19, found three-quarters have little or no confidence in Tory MPs putting the right two final candidates to the membership.
It found that 54% said immigration is the top policy priority, with the economy second on 23%.
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It comes as the six senior Tories, who secured the support of 10 MPs in order to enter the leadership race, are battling it out to replace Rishi Sunak as the Conservative Party seeks to rebuild after its worst-ever general election result last month.
MPs will vote off two of the contenders so the final four go to the party's conference in Birmingham next month to make their leadership pitch.
Conservative MPs will then eliminate two more, with the final pair going to a ballot of Tory members with the winner announced on November 2.