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| Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge – live | Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge – live |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 3.34pm BST | |
| 15:34 | |
| Andrew Sparrow | |
| And the Labour resignations are continuing. This is from the Sun’s Craig Woodhouse. | |
| Labour resignations have started again: Rob Marris as Treasury frontbencher, during Finance Bill committee | |
| I’ve got to finish for the day now. But my colleague Haroon Siddique is still here and will be blogging for the rest of the day. | |
| 3.30pm BST | |
| 15:30 | |
| Here is more on the Johnson/Gove fall out. | |
| From Sky’s Sophy Ridge | |
| Tory MP & former Boris backer: "Michael has behaved badly towards Boris.I'm not sure people will feel they can trust him after this morning" | |
| From the BBC’s Ross Hawkins | |
| View from small unscientific sample of Cons MPs - much distrust of Gove after morning's events, he needs to be handshaking & reassuring | |
| From ITV’s Chris Ship | |
| Boris was trying to get @andrealeadsom on his team (they did @ITV & @bbc debates together). But she pulled out overnight & made her own bid | |
| From the FT’s Sebastian Payne | |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg has switched his support from Boris Johnson to Michael Gove | |
| 3.27pm BST | |
| 15:27 | |
| Haroon Siddique | |
| Tory grandee Michael Heseltine has really put the boot into Boris Johnson for pulling out of the leadership race, accusing him of ripping the party apart and creating “the greatest constitutional crisis in peacetime in my life”. | |
| Here's what Lord Heseltine had to say about Boris Johnson pulling out of leadership race pic.twitter.com/pffxChI00k | |
| 3.26pm BST | |
| 15:26 | |
| Theresa May will be pleased with this. | |
| Our colleagues in Germany are seeing parallels between Theresa May and the German chancellor pic.twitter.com/BGkak6y4jH | |
| 3.19pm BST | |
| 15:19 | |
| Here is an extract from George Parker’s account of the Gove/Johnson fall out for the Financial Times. | |
| Stories circulated that Mr Johnson had failed to attend a meeting with about 50 pro-Remain Conservative MPs. Key people, including the prominent pro-Brexit minister Andrea Leadsom, had failed to commit to his campaign. “Michael tried to make Boris’s campaign work but it was becoming clear it wasn’t going to work,” the ally said. “He wasn’t giving people the love or attention or making the offers to people that were required.” | |
| Mr Gove’s friends say that a convoluted Daily Telegraph article written by Mr Johnson on Monday had added to a sense of concern among Conservative MPs about his leadership qualities, but allies of the former London mayor said the piece was “sub-edited by Michael”. Mr Johnson’s backers also deny he was responsible for chaos in the leadership bid, saying that Mr Gove was in charge of the campaign, including arranging meetings with MPs and signing up new backers. | |
| 3.07pm BST | |
| 15:07 | |
| Haroon Siddique | |
| Boris Johnson’s father has likened Michael Gove to the assassins who murdered Julius Caesar. | |
| Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s The World at One, when asked about Gove’s intervention, Stanley Johnson quoted Caesar’s supposed last words after he was stabbed by his former friend Brutus. | |
| ’Et tu Brute’ is my comment on that. I don’t think he is called Brutus, but you never know. | |
| Johnson senior said his son had been taken by surprise by Gove’s disparaging assessment of his ability to lead the country. | |
| This has obviously been a very, very stressful time. I think he was probably very surprised by Michael Gove’s sudden move as indeed many people are. | |
| He backed the remain campaign but maintained that his son had made a brilliant “career move” in putting himself at the head of the leave campaign. | |
| Boris’s career move I think was in a sense an absolutely brilliant move in one way because it did put on the table crucial issues for the British electorate. | |
| It put on the table the immigration issue, the direction of travel issue, the sovereignty issue - all those things. | |
| Updated | |
| at 3.07pm BST | |
| 2.54pm BST | 2.54pm BST |
| 14:54 | 14:54 |
| Haroon Siddique | Haroon Siddique |
| Labour MP Ruth Smeeth has urged Jeremy Corbyn to resign immediately, accusing him of a “catastrophic failure of leadership”, after he failed to defend her when she was abused at the launch of a report into antisemitism in the party. In a statement she said: | Labour MP Ruth Smeeth has urged Jeremy Corbyn to resign immediately, accusing him of a “catastrophic failure of leadership”, after he failed to defend her when she was abused at the launch of a report into antisemitism in the party. In a statement she said: |
| I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a ‘media conspiracy’. It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people, which were ironically highlighted as such in Ms [Shami] Chakrabarti’s report, while the leader of my own party stood by and did absolutely nothing. | I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a ‘media conspiracy’. It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people, which were ironically highlighted as such in Ms [Shami] Chakrabarti’s report, while the leader of my own party stood by and did absolutely nothing. |
| People like this have no place in our party or our movement and must be opposed. Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy’s ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews. | People like this have no place in our party or our movement and must be opposed. Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy’s ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews. |
| Smeeth said that she has written to the general secretary of the Labour Party and the chair of the parliamentary Labour party to complain about the events. She continued: | Smeeth said that she has written to the general secretary of the Labour Party and the chair of the parliamentary Labour party to complain about the events. She continued: |
| No-one from the Leader’s office has contacted me since the event, which is itself a catastrophic failure of leadership. I call on Jeremy Corbyn to resign immediately and make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and antisemitism in our party and in the country.. | No-one from the Leader’s office has contacted me since the event, which is itself a catastrophic failure of leadership. I call on Jeremy Corbyn to resign immediately and make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and antisemitism in our party and in the country.. |
| Smeeth resigned as parliamentary private secretary the shadow Northern Ireland and Scotland teams on Monday. | Smeeth resigned as parliamentary private secretary the shadow Northern Ireland and Scotland teams on Monday. |
| 2.44pm BST | 2.44pm BST |
| 14:44 | 14:44 |
| Philip Oltermann | Philip Oltermann |
| The former German chancellor Helmut Kohl has warned European leaders against applying too much pressure on Britain, in the wake of the vote for Brexit. | The former German chancellor Helmut Kohl has warned European leaders against applying too much pressure on Britain, in the wake of the vote for Brexit. |
| In an account of an interview for the tabloid newspaper Bild by its editor-in-chief, Kai Diekmann, Kohl, 86, is indirectly quoted as warning against “unnecessary severity and haste” in the post-referendum negotiations. | In an account of an interview for the tabloid newspaper Bild by its editor-in-chief, Kai Diekmann, Kohl, 86, is indirectly quoted as warning against “unnecessary severity and haste” in the post-referendum negotiations. |
| The man who was one of the driving forces behind European integration in the 1990s believes that slamming the door on Britain would be an “enormous mistake” and that the country needs time to decide what it wants to do next, Diekmann writes. | The man who was one of the driving forces behind European integration in the 1990s believes that slamming the door on Britain would be an “enormous mistake” and that the country needs time to decide what it wants to do next, Diekmann writes. |
| Kohl, who oversaw the reunification of Germany and the introduction of the euro, is calling for Europe to “take a breather” and take “one step back before taking two steps forward”, at a pace that is manageable for all member states, the article says. | Kohl, who oversaw the reunification of Germany and the introduction of the euro, is calling for Europe to “take a breather” and take “one step back before taking two steps forward”, at a pace that is manageable for all member states, the article says. |
| 2.40pm BST | 2.40pm BST |
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| Anushka Asthana | Anushka Asthana |
| I’m hearing strong rumours that some of the “core loyal” Corbyn supporters are planning to tell him that they think it’s time to go. | I’m hearing strong rumours that some of the “core loyal” Corbyn supporters are planning to tell him that they think it’s time to go. |
| 2.36pm BST | 2.36pm BST |
| 14:36 | 14:36 |
| Haroon Siddique | Haroon Siddique |
| Emma Reynolds, chair of the parliamentary Labour party’s (PLP’s) health committee, has written to the party’s general secretary Iain McNicol to complain about John McDonnell in response to an article in the Guardian about the shadow chancellor setting up a secret group of advisers to help shape Labour’s stance on the NHS. | Emma Reynolds, chair of the parliamentary Labour party’s (PLP’s) health committee, has written to the party’s general secretary Iain McNicol to complain about John McDonnell in response to an article in the Guardian about the shadow chancellor setting up a secret group of advisers to help shape Labour’s stance on the NHS. |
| She writes: | She writes: |
| It has been reported in today’s Guardian that John McDonnell has set up a parallel organisation to formulate health policy. As you can see from the article, members of other political parties, including somebody who stood in competition with one of our party’s parliamentary candidates, are members of this organisation: | It has been reported in today’s Guardian that John McDonnell has set up a parallel organisation to formulate health policy. As you can see from the article, members of other political parties, including somebody who stood in competition with one of our party’s parliamentary candidates, are members of this organisation: |
| I would like to formally complain against John McDonnell. I would also like to seek your advice as to whether, in setting up this parallel organisation and working with members of other political parties, he is breaking any of the party rules or the PLP code of conduct. | I would like to formally complain against John McDonnell. I would also like to seek your advice as to whether, in setting up this parallel organisation and working with members of other political parties, he is breaking any of the party rules or the PLP code of conduct. |