With the winner of the Conservative Party leadership election, and the next Prime Minister, due to be announced today research from The Share Centre shows personal investors would prefer for Jeremy Hunt to win.

Arbuthnot Banking Group, owner of wealth manager Arbuthnot Latham, has donated more than £44,000 to Brexiteer Tory MP Dominic Raab.

The Prime Minister has hinted that the Conservative party may try to push forward with a pledge made in 2010 to increase the inheritance tax threshold to £1million before next May's General Election.