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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Asked if he had enough supporters to survive the round, Mr Hunt, the foreign secretary, said: "I think so."
Here's the latest from Ashley Cowburn:
Former leadership contenders Andrea Leadsom and Mark Harper have both been to vote.
Some MPs are in the committee corridor from various camps writing down the names of supporters as they arrive.
Boris Johnson left the voting room, but declined to comment to the waiting pack of journalists in the corridor.
Mr Javid, who only just survived the second round of voting, said he was "quietly confident" this time.
Asked where he expected to have won votes from, he said: "We'll see - I'll explain afterwards when I've won."
David Davis has revealed he has switched his vote to Boris Johnson, after previously backing Dominic Raab.
Mr Javid tweeted: "Voting now alongside some brilliant colleagues. My pitch to those not currently backing me: 1) We need a robust but constructive contest.
"2) I am the only credible change candidate with the experience to do the job and ability to unite the party."
Senior Labour figures have mounted a backlash against pressure to change the party's Brexit position to support a second referendum, Andrew Woodcock writes:
Mr Gove said he is “very” confident of making it through the third ballot today as he headed in to vote, Ashley Cowburn writes.
He said he had "wonderful support from wonderful people".
Rory Stewart has admitted outside the voting room it has been “quite difficult” to get Dominic Raab’s backers to switch their support to him, Ashley Cowburn writes.
He says “maybe two” of Mr Raab's supporters have switched their votes to him.
Theresa May has left the voting office after casting her ballot, reports Ashley Cowburn.
Asked by journalists how voted, the PM replied with smile and a wag of her finger: “I told you yesterday - none of your business”.
Rory Stewart has said he fears the "dark arts of Gavin Williamson's proxy votes" could swing things out of his favour.
Speaking in the committee corridor outside the room where MPs are voting, the international development secretary said he believed he had won support from two former backers of Dominic Raab, who was eliminated yesterday.
But Stewart worried he may have lost support from a "female proxy voter".
"This is all a mystery but we will know at 6 o'clock," he added.
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