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一 |     Eight candidates have made it through to the first round of voting for the Conservative party leadership.,1922 Committee Chairman Sir Graham Brady announced the competitors for outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's job at the 6pm close of the deadline for nominations on Tuesday.,The eight candidates include former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch, Attorney General Suella Braverman, 2019 leadership runner-up Jeremy Hunt and Trade Policy Minister Penny Mordaunt.,Bookies' favourite Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor of the exchequer who led the walkout from cabinet that forced Johnson's resignation, is also on the ballot along with foreign secretary Liz Truss, Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat and Sunak's replacement as chancellor Nadhim Zahawi.,Four of the candidates are from ethnic minorities and four are women. The first hustings debate was set to kick of at 7pm UK time.,Despite the backbench committee raising the bar to 20 nominations from eight during the last leadership contest in 2019, almost as many candidates made it thorough to the first knock-out round of balloting by Conservative MPs.,1922 Committee Announces Timetable for Tory Leadership ContestYesterday, 18:48 GMT,Badenoch, Braverman and Mordaunt are all Brexiteers, although Mordaunt is more socially liberal while Badenoch is an anti-'woke' candidate who has pledged to put the government's 'net zero' carbon emissions policy on hold.,Hunt and Tugendhat are leading Tory Europhiles who are now trying to play down their opposition to Britain's exit from the European Union.,Tugendhat and Truss, another Remainer, have been among the loudest cheerleaders for arms supplies to the Ukraine and sanctions on Russia that have only caused record inflation in the UK.,Former health secretary Sajid Javid, Home Secretary Priti Patel, Transport Secretary Grant Schapps, backbench MP Rehamn Chisti and COVID Recovery Group deputy chairman Steve Baker had already dropped out of the race.,Downing Street Blocks Opposition No-Confidence Motion in Outgoing PM BoJo17:04 GMT,The eight leadership hopefuls must now compete for support from fellow Conservative MPs. A series of ballots will see the candidate with the least support eliminated, along with any failing to reach an ever-increasing threshold of votes.,The final two will be put to a postal ballot of all Conservative Party members — up to 200,000 at a recent count.,Mordaunt and Badenoch are most popular among the Tory grassroots, according to a new poll by website Conservative Home, but there is no guarantee they will make it onto the final ballot.。    A former Ohio State University student-athlete is speaking out against Rep. Jim Jordan's bid for House speaker, saying Jordan "turned a blind eye" to allegations of abuse against a team doctor during his time as assistant coach for the university's wrestling team.Rocky Ratliff is now an attorney who also represents several other former OSU wrestlers in an ongoing lawsuit against the university."I think the wrestlers that I represent, not one of us, would back him for such a leadership position," Ratliff told ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.He continued, "He's abandoned us for his own selfish reasons when he could have helped us. He's chosen not to. So that is not the good makings of any type of leadership or any type of leader that he would have put up with at Ohio State. It's just not. None of us wrestlers believe he should get that position."A spokesperson for Jordan, R-Ohio, told ABC News, "Chairman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it."The allegations of abuse were against Dr. Richard Strauss, an Ohio State team doctor and sports medicine researcher. Strauss is accused of sexually abusing at least 177 men over an 18-year period from 1979 to 1997 -- nearly his entire time at Ohio State, according to an independent report released in 2019.Investigators determined that university officials ignored nearly two decades of accusations of sexual abuse against Strauss, who killed himself in 2006 at age 67, seven years after retiring from the university.The accusations of abuse involved athletes from at least 16 sports including wrestling, hockey and swimming, and included Strauss' work at the student health center and an off-campus clinic that he founded late in his tenure, according to the report.The university removed Strauss as a school physician in 1996 after a flurry of student complaints and reported his actions to the State Medical Board of Ohio. However, the school allowed Strauss to retain his tenured faculty position while he operated an off-campus clinic, where the report says he continued to abuse students.Ohio State University has since admitted that it failed to protect students from Strauss, paying out $60 million in settlements to some 296 victims.Jordan, who was an assistant coach on the team from 1986 to 1994, came under fire in 2018 when several former OSU wrestlers took their allegations against Strauss to the media and claimed Jordan was aware of Strauss' inappropriate behavior and failed to report it. The university then announced it was opening an investigation into the allegations against Strauss.Jordan also denied knowing about the abuse when the allegations first came out in 2018.Jordan is now facing renewed scrutiny amid the ongoing battle for House speaker. After again failing to receive enough GOP support, the congressman and chair of the House Judiciary Committee was defeated a second time after a vote on Wednesday afternoon."We believe very strongly, especially all the wrestlers that were there at the time, that Jim Jordan knew what was going on," Ratliff said on Wednesday.Ratliff continued, "Jordan should come forward and tell the truth about what happened. At least meet with the guys. He's failed to do that -- to hear our side, he's failed. You know, even if you believe what Jim Jordan says, he has never once reached out to any wrestler to say, 'Hey, I missed it. I'm sorry. How are you feeling?'"ABC News' Eric Ortega, Imtiyaz Delawala, Lindsey Griswold, and Andrea Amiel contributed to this report.。

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