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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Tory MP Guy Opperman thinks Michael Gove will be putting on quite a few more votes during this round.
The Tory leadership result is expected to be announced very soon, as people gather in the room awaiting the result.
BREAKING - Third round voting results:
Johnson: 143 votes
Hunt: 54 votes
Gove: 51 votes
Javid: 38 votes
Stewart: 27 votes (ELIMINATED)
It means Rory Stewart has been eliminated from the Tory leadership race after the third round of voting by Conservative MPs, as Boris Johnson again topped the ballot.
Rory Stewart has responded to the results by thanking the public for the reaction to his “wonderful and exciting campaign”.
Here’s Benjamin Kentish with the details.
Jeremy Hunt now claiming the mantle as the “best-placed” person to take on Boris.
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