Tory leadership vote result - live: Boris Johnson tops poll despite being branded 'racist' and 'not fit for office' as Stewart eliminated
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Your support makes all the difference.Rory Stewart was eliminated from the Tory leadership race after the third round of voting by Conservative MPs on Wednesday, as Boris Johnson again topped the ballot with 143 votes.
Jeremy Hunt came second with 54 votes, narrowly ahead of Michael Gove with 51, while Sajid Javid picked up five extra votes to reach 38.
Mr Johnson was earlier called “racist” and “not fit for office” during PMQs by Ian Blackford, the SNP leader in the Commons.
Senior Labour MPs put pressure on leader Jeremy Corbyn to back a second Brexit referendum at a shadow cabinet meeting.
Nigel Farage, meanwhile, claimed the Brexit Party could form an electoral pact with a Johnson-led Conservative Party to deliver a no deal exit.
See how the day unfolded below:
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Mr Stewart was the winner of last night's TV debate, a YouGov poll has found. One in three viewers (35 per cent) said the international development secretary made the biggest impact.
Mr Johnson came second in on 21 per cent, Jeremy Hunt on 14 per cent, Mr Gove on 9 per cent and Mr Javid on 5 per cent.
The remaining 16 per cent said they could not pick one candidate who outshone the others.
Jeremy Corbyn has called on Theresa May to give a deadline for when work to replace Grenfell Tower-style cladding will be completed.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Corbyn said those living in high rise blocks with the cladding "are worried".
Ms May said all affected social housing had been visited by firefighters to make sure they were safe.
Mr Corbyn then asked for a deadline for when sprinklers would be added to high-rise buildings, but Ms May said a previous report after the 2009 Lakanal house fire in London found buildings should only "consider" retrofitting sprinklers.
Ian Blackford, the leader of the SNP at Westminster, has said Mr Johnson is "not fit for office".
He added: "Not only is the member racist, he is stoking division in communities and has a record of dishonesty."
John Bercow, the speaker, urged Mr Blackford to "weigh his words" and withdraw any allegation of racism made towards an MP.
Mr Blackford said he warned Mr Johnson of his remarks, and cited his comments describing Muslim women as "letterboxes" and referring to "watermelon smiles".
Ms May told Mr Blackford he should be asking her what the prime minister and government has been doing, and said any Conservative prime minister would be better for Scotland than the SNP.
Virendra Sharma, Labour MP for Ealing Southall, said Ms May's "unjust, discriminatory and racist" immigration policies as home secretary and prime minister have been a failure.
He said her policies have caused people to be treated "inhumanely" and asked if she could call her record on immigration anything but a failure.
Ms May said "immigration has been good for this country" and said people have confidence in the government's immigration system.
Here are Mr Blackford's remarks calling Mr Johnson "racist" and saying he is "unfit" to be prime minister in full:
Mr Stewart has asked his fellow leadership candidates to answer 10 questions on Brexit, including what changes they would seek to make to the Withdrawal Bill and whether they would rule out a no-deal Brexit.
Posting on Twitter, Mr Stewart followed the questions by answering them himself, explaining that he would not pursue a no-deal Brexit and would not deliver one without the consent of parliament, adding he would "work morning and night to get the deal through parliament as soon as humanly possible".
He said he would not promise to leave the EU by the current October 31 deadline as "we live in a parliamentary democracy" and he would "of course" resign if he made a public promise "of that importance" and failed to deliver it.
He also said he would not seek to change the Withdrawal Agreement and would rule out a general election this year "at all costs".
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