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| Tory leadership: Johnson, Hunt, Gove, Stewart, Javid through, as Raab eliminated – live news | Tory leadership: Johnson, Hunt, Gove, Stewart, Javid through, as Raab eliminated – live news |
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| Gillian Keegan, the Chichester MP and a supporter of Rory Stewart, told reporters after the result was announced the momentum was with his campaign. She said: | |
| They’re very close now. There’s a clear winner, and between the others there are not many votes | |
| It’s very rewarding. Rory’s campaign is basically honest about where we are as a country. He’s basically telling people the uncomfortable truth in some cases, but he’s being honest. And who knew there was a market for honesty in politics. I’d always hoped that there was. | |
| Mark Francois, the strongly Brexit-minded MP who supports Boris Johnson rather than Dominic Raab, said it was sad that Raab had been eliminated. He went on: | |
| Whoever wins, and I hope it’s Boris, I hope they find a good place for Dom in their cabinet, because I think he deserves it. | |
| This is from a spokesman for Jeremy Hunt’s campaign. | |
| This is a solid result. It shows a steady step forward, which is exactly what we were expecting. It confirms that Jeremy is the best placed candidate to take on Boris. He’s the only candidate who can unite the country and the party by delivering Brexit. | |
| A source in the Sajid Javid campaign says Javid will not be withdrawing from the contest before the next ballot, which is tomorrow. He put on 10 votes, the same as Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab combined, the source says. “We are fighting tomorrow’s ballot.” | |
| This is from a spokesperson for the Rory Stewart campaign. | |
| This is a fantastic result for Rory - almost doubling his vote - with the biggest increase of all the candidates. This shows his momentum is continuing to build. He can now go all the way to the final two, giving the clear choice that members deserve. | |
| Rory is running a positive campaign that is reaching across the country - and he invites MPs to join his team, Leave or Remain, frontbencher or backbencher. | |
| The moment is here. Together we can get Brexit done, put honesty and trust at the heart of all we do, and make this country fairer, greener and more united. | |
| Here are some thoughts on the result. | |
| 1) This is a messy, inconclusive result that suggests in the one contest that really counts, the fight for the second-place slot on the final ballot, there are potentially three candidates - Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Rory Stewart. | |
| 2) Stewart is the candidate with the most momentum. That does not make him a prospective winner by any stretch but there is now a credible path by which he could make it on to the final ballot. He is unlikely to pick up any of the 30 votes that went to Dominic Raab and are now up for grabs because Raab was the most hardline Brexit candidate, and Stewart is at the other end of the spectrum. But if Sajid Javid’s supporters were to tuck in behind Stewart, his vote would rise to 70. In practice, votes never get redistributed that simply, but last week the fight for second place looked like a Hunt/Gove contest. Now Stewart is in contention. | |
| 3) Hunt’s lead over Gove has slipped from six votes to five. But Gove could plausibly expect to pick up more of the 30 Raab votes, because they were both leading figures of the Vote Leave campaign. It is very possible that Gove could overhaul Hunt. | |
| 4) Johnson is still the overall favourite, but it does feel as if his campaign is losing momentum. There were 50 votes available after the elimination of Matt Hancock, Andrea Leadsom, Mark Harper and Esther McVey. Johnson picked up just 12 of them despite being seen as the overwhelming favourite. He is still not performing as well as Theresa May did in 2016, when she got 50% of the vote in the first ballot. That said, surveys of the membership show he is much more popular with then than any of his rivals and it is still hard to see how he can be beaten. (See 12.23pm.) | |
| 5) The result means Raab won’t be taking part in the TV debate tonight, so we may see a repeat of what happened on Sunday night: all the other candidates ganging up on the one candidate (now Johnson) who has not publicly ruled out proroguing parliament to facilitate a no-deal Brexit. Given what Tory members seem to think about Brexit (see 11.05am), that may not do him any harm at all. | |
| 6) But it does mean Stewart will be in the debate - and he is a potential threat to Johnson because he has been the one candidate willing to denounce Johnson’s Brexit plan as bogus. | |
| And here are the results with changes from last Thursday, and overall percentage. | |
| Boris Johnson - 126 - up 12 - 40% | Boris Johnson - 126 - up 12 - 40% |
| Jeremy Hunt – 46 - up 3 - 15% | Jeremy Hunt – 46 - up 3 - 15% |
| Michael Gove – 41 - up 4 - 13% | Michael Gove – 41 - up 4 - 13% |
| Rory Stewart – 37 - up 18 - 12% | Rory Stewart – 37 - up 18 - 12% |
| Sajid Javid – 33 - up 10 - 11% | Sajid Javid – 33 - up 10 - 11% |
| Dominic Raab – 30 - up 3 - 10% | Dominic Raab – 30 - up 3 - 10% |
| Gillan confirms that five candidates will go through: | Gillan confirms that five candidates will go through: |
| Boris Johnson | Boris Johnson |
| Jeremy Hunt | Jeremy Hunt |
| Michael Gove | Michael Gove |
| Rory Stewart | Rory Stewart |
| Sajid Javid | Sajid Javid |
| And all five will be in the debate tonight. | And all five will be in the debate tonight. |
| Cheryl Gillan, the joint acting chair of the 1922 Committee, is now reading out the results. | Cheryl Gillan, the joint acting chair of the 1922 Committee, is now reading out the results. |
| All 313 Tory MPs voted, she says. There were no spoiled ballot papers. | All 313 Tory MPs voted, she says. There were no spoiled ballot papers. |
| Boris Johnson - 126 | Boris Johnson - 126 |
| Jeremy Hunt – 46 | Jeremy Hunt – 46 |
| Michael Gove – 41 | Michael Gove – 41 |
| Rory Stewart – 37 | Rory Stewart – 37 |
| Sajid Javid – 33 | Sajid Javid – 33 |
| Dominic Raab – 30 | Dominic Raab – 30 |
| Room filling up for the result of the second ballot of the Tory leadership results | Room filling up for the result of the second ballot of the Tory leadership results |
| This is from my colleague Peter Walker, who is in committee room 14 where the result is due to announced at 6pm. | This is from my colleague Peter Walker, who is in committee room 14 where the result is due to announced at 6pm. |
| We’re in the room - committee room 14 to be precise - for the result of second round of MPs’ voting for next Tory leader. Due at 6pm-ish. Johnson will be top again, of course, but who will come last and/or fail to reach the 33-vote threshold? Dicey for Raab, Javid & Stewart. | We’re in the room - committee room 14 to be precise - for the result of second round of MPs’ voting for next Tory leader. Due at 6pm-ish. Johnson will be top again, of course, but who will come last and/or fail to reach the 33-vote threshold? Dicey for Raab, Javid & Stewart. |
| Stephen Crabb, the former cabinet minister who is backing Sajid Javid for the leadership, has just told BBC News the party should stop choosing Etonians as leader. He said: | Stephen Crabb, the former cabinet minister who is backing Sajid Javid for the leadership, has just told BBC News the party should stop choosing Etonians as leader. He said: |
| I’ve got nothing against Etonians. The very best boss I ever had in working life was an Etonian, David Cameron, but I think there is an issue for our party if we keep going back to the same school over and over again for our senior politicians. There is something not quite right about that. We pride ourselves on being a meritocratic party ... We should genuinely look like that at the top of the party. | I’ve got nothing against Etonians. The very best boss I ever had in working life was an Etonian, David Cameron, but I think there is an issue for our party if we keep going back to the same school over and over again for our senior politicians. There is something not quite right about that. We pride ourselves on being a meritocratic party ... We should genuinely look like that at the top of the party. |
| Of course two of the candidates still in the contest, Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart, are Etonians. | Of course two of the candidates still in the contest, Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart, are Etonians. |
| This is from the Telegraph’s Christopher Hope. | This is from the Telegraph’s Christopher Hope. |
| Reminder: senior figure in the Government (neutral and not aligned to any campaign) told me last week that @BorisJohnson could be "within touching distance" of 200 MPs by the end of this week #ToryLeadershipContest | Reminder: senior figure in the Government (neutral and not aligned to any campaign) told me last week that @BorisJohnson could be "within touching distance" of 200 MPs by the end of this week #ToryLeadershipContest |