Tory leadership election: Boris Johnson wins first round by landslide as McVey, Leadsom and Harper all exit contest

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Conservative leadership bid: Results of first ballot

Boris Johnson has emerged as the clear frontrunner in the first round of votes for the new Tory leader and prime minister.

The former foreign secretary won 114 votes, followed by Jeremy Hunt on 43 and Michael Gove with 37.

Andrea Leadsom, Mark Harper and Esther McVey failed to win enough votes, meaning they have all been knocked out of the Conservative leadership race.

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Key Points

• Boris Johnson wins commanding victory in first leadership ballot
• ... as Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Mark Harper eliminated
• Rory Stewart vows to 'bring down' leadership rival Johnson
• New Final Say Brexit march to be held in the autumn
• Parliament may have run out of options to block no deal, says Sir Oliver Letwin

[13 June 2019 11:04 · Samuel Osborne]

[13 June 2019 11:13 · Samuel Osborne]

Labour MP Jess Phillips has launched an attack on Boris Johnson on Twitter: "I pass Boris Johnson in the corridors a lot. He shuffles uncomfortably and looks at the ground.

"On one occasion before the Tory conference in Birmingham, I said to him that I hope the Muslim women in my city show him how welcome he is there. Again he shuffled uncomfortably," she claimed.

"He does not defend his position, he looks like a chastened child when ever I see him. He's being told to say these things by a racist machine and believe me when I say that he is no big beast he can't even take me looking at him in the eye. He's a bullies patsy with no guts.

"I do not fear him as an opponent to be honest I pity him, because he doesn't passionately believe in anything and his authenticity rubs off with even the slightest brushing. He's a hollow icon who cannot even defend his words."

She added: "If you think I'm being harsh on BJ you don't have any Muslim women friends or family because mine have all been messaging me sadly this morning frightened for their country." 

[13 June 2019 11:23 · Samuel Osborne]

Here is where all 10 Tory leadership race candidates stand on Brexit: 

[13 June 2019 11:37 · Samuel Osborne]

Downing Street said there was only a "limited number" of places available for ministers at the state banquet for Donald Trump, after Sajid Javid said it was "odd" he was excluded.

The prime minister's official spokesman said a "large number" of ministers had expressed a wish to attend but were unable to do so.

"This was a state banquet hosted by Her Majesty the Queen so I don't think it is appropriate to discuss in public who did or did not ask to attend," the prime minister's official spokesman said.

"As with any state banquet only a limited number of places are available to the government. A large number of ministers who expressed a wish to attend were not able to do so."

[13 June 2019 11:44 · Samuel Osborne]

Philip Hammond, the chancellor, refused to say who he had voted for.

[13 June 2019 12:00 · Samuel Osborne]

The first round of voting for the future Tory leader has now closed.

[13 June 2019 12:04 · Samuel Osborne]

MP Peter Bone, a teller for the ballot, said: "Turn out was close enough to 100 per cent."

[13 June 2019 12:12 · Samuel Osborne]

Downing Street rejected a claim by former Tory Party chairman Baroness Warsi that Sajid Javid's exclusion from the state banquet was linked to his Muslim background.

The prime minister's official spokesman said: "Categorically untrue. The prime minister is proud to have appointed Sajid Javid as the country's first Muslim home secretary."

Lady Warsi tweeted: "To use my own phrase from 2011 'Islamophobia has passed the dinner table test."'

[13 June 2019 12:23 · Samuel Osborne]

Here's more on Jess Phillips' comments from earlier, in which claimed Boris Johnson "shuffles uncomfortably and looks at the ground" whenever she sees him.  

[13 June 2019 12:38 · Samuel Osborne]

Ashley Cowburn has more on Sir Oliver Letwin's comments earlier. Sir Oliver warned MPs have run out of possibilities to block a future prime minister from pursuing a no-deal Brexit.