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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Theresa May has not even told husband Philip who she is backing in the Tory leadership race, a Downing Street source has revealed.
"When she said she hasn't told anyone who she was backing, that includes her husband," said the source.
Ms May has voted in both rounds so far, and the source confirmed she intends to take part in remaining rounds today and tomorrow, voting by proxy of necessary.
A tweet sent out from Ian Lavery, the chairman of the Labour Party, who has been vocal about his disagreements with a second referendum, appearing to confirm a shift in Labour's Brexit position has been deleted.
In a new post, he said: "Earlier this morning a tweet was sent from this account in reply to @SamCoatesSky, this was not authorised by myself of anyone on my team. Appropriate security updates have been made and I can assure any journalists etc. that it was not a tweet I authorised re Brexit position."
His original - and now deleted tweet - is below
Former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab has officially backed Boris Johnson in the Conservative leadership contest, saying he is the only candidate who will ensure Brexit is delivered by 31 October.
Mr Raab, who was eliminated from the race in the second round yesterday, is expected to be joined by many of his 30 supporters, who included members of the European Research Group of hardline backbench Brexiteers.
Their support will give a further impetus to the drive to Downing Street mounted by Mr Johnson, who is already all but guaranteed a place on the ballot paper for the vote of 160,000 Conservative members which will select the new PM next month.
An imam who questioned the Tory leadership candidates during a live televised debate has been suspended from his job as a primary school teacher after a row over antisemitic tweets.
Abdullah Patel was removed from his duties as deputy head of Al-Ashraf Primary School in Gloucester after it emerged that he had previously said critics of Jeremy Corbyn were "on the Zionist's payroll".
He also suggested that the state of Israel should be moved to the USA, called Gaza "the modern day Auschwitz" and claimed that some women who are assaulted by men are partially to blame.
During a BBC debate on Tuesday night, Mr Patel asked the Conservative leadership contenders if they believed that "words have consequences" - a question widely seen as a reference to Boris Johnson's past comments about Muslim women who wear the veil looking like "letterboxes".
The BBC One Conservative leadership debate, Our Next Prime Minister, was watched by an average of 5.3 million viewers, the BBC has said.
The programme had a peak viewership of 5.7 million and according to the corporation was the "best performing programme of the night across all channels".
Several MPs in areas which voted to leave the European Union have written to Mr Corbyn urging him to reject a second Brexit referendum.
Abdullah Petel has been suspended from the mosque where he is an imam.
"We are fully aware of that allegations made against our imam, Abdullah Patel, regarding the contents of historic tweets," the executive members of the Masjid e Umar mosque in Gloucester said in a statement.
"We have decided to act immediately and have chosen to give him some time away to allow us the opportunity to conduct a detailed investigation into this matter.
"This is the official stance of the mosque's executive committee and we hope you respect our right to privacy as we conduct this deeply sensitive investigation.
"Please do not attempt to contact any member of the mosque privately. We will not be entertaining any questions.
"Thank you for your understanding."
Another member of the public - Aman Thakar - who questioned the Tory leadership candidates during the BBC debate has been suspended by law firm Leigh Day, where he works as an employment solicitor.
He will be investigated over a tweet.
Mr Thakar, who was the Labour Party candidate in Borough and Bankside in the Southwark local election last year, has now made his Twitter account private.
A Leigh Day spokesman said: "We can confirm that Aman Thakar is currently a solicitor at Leigh Day in our employment department. We have been made aware of a tweet which we are taking very seriously.
"Mr Thakar has been suspended with immediate effect from the firm whilst we carry out an internal investigation into these matters."
Our political correspondent Ashley Cowburn is outside the room where voting is taking place. He writes:
The third round of voting in the Conservative leadership contest has just started and MPs are have begun entering the 1922 Committee room to cast their ballots.
So far, leadership contenders Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt have been in to vote. Leaving the room, Mr Javid says he is "quietly confident".
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