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Tory leadership: result of final MPs' ballot due at 6pm – live news | |
(32 minutes later) | |
The results are due very soon. My colleague Peter Walker is in the room. | |
I’m in the room for the result of the 5th and - please, God - final round of MPs’ voting in the Tory leadership contest. Only way we’d get a 6th would be tie for second/third. Result due at 6ish. | |
This is from Sajid Javid, the home secretary, who was knocked out of the contest at lunchtime. | |
If my ambition and conduct in this contest has set an example for anyone, then it has been more than worth it. My message to kids like me: pic.twitter.com/jaa2cMxM4z | |
Sir Max Hastings, the former Daily Telegraph editor who used to employ Boris Johnson when he was a journalist, is a frequent critic of his former employee, but he has been particularly harsh on the PM programme just now. This is from my colleague Jonathan Freedland. | |
“I’m not sure he’s capable of caring for any human being other than himself,” says his editor for 10 years, Max Hastings, of Boris Johnson on @BBCPM | |
UPDATE: And this is from the BBC’s Philippa Thomas. | |
“I don’t understand why so many MPs who wouldn’t trust him with their wallet or their wife have fallen in behind him”. Max Hastings on #BorisJohnson @BBCRadio4 | |
This is from BrexitCentral’s Jonathan Isaby. | |
Four Javid voters declared for Johnson this afternoon but where does the rest of his vote go? It fragments, and three ways, but for what it’s worth, my hunch is that Hunt will have picked up a wee bit more than Gove to secure his place against Johnson in the Tory members’ vote. | |
Voting has closed in the fifth Tory leadership ballot. | |
We are expecting the result at around 6pm. | |
This is from the BBC’s Jessica Parker, who is outside the room where MPs have been voting in the Tory leadership contest. | |
Sounds like all the votes are in for Johnson. His team, who are monitoring who’s in and out... “We’re done!” #toryleadership | |
The Conservative MP Chris Philp voted for Sajid Javid this morning. Now he is supporting Boris Johnson. | |
I have voted for @BorisJohnson in the final round today, and will do so again as a party member in July if he gets through. I believe decisive and bold leadership is needed to navigate us through these times | |
David Lidington, the de facto deputy PM and formerly a Rory Stewart supporter, has emerged from the fifth round of voting to warn the final two candidates, whoever they are, to not focus too narrowly on issues like Brexit, saying the union of the UK is at the most risk he has ever seen, while the party faces “existential” challenges. | David Lidington, the de facto deputy PM and formerly a Rory Stewart supporter, has emerged from the fifth round of voting to warn the final two candidates, whoever they are, to not focus too narrowly on issues like Brexit, saying the union of the UK is at the most risk he has ever seen, while the party faces “existential” challenges. |
Lidington told waiting reporters he would welcome a “vigorous” debate, but urged the final two to pitch their appeal widely. On Brexit, he also said a no-deal departure would risk the UK splitting up. He said: | Lidington told waiting reporters he would welcome a “vigorous” debate, but urged the final two to pitch their appeal widely. On Brexit, he also said a no-deal departure would risk the UK splitting up. He said: |
I think the members deserve a proper debate about the challenges that face the country and the Conservative party. Now clearly, Brexit is going to be a key issue, but I really hope that the candidates do look beyond that. | I think the members deserve a proper debate about the challenges that face the country and the Conservative party. Now clearly, Brexit is going to be a key issue, but I really hope that the candidates do look beyond that. |
You have to think back to 1992 since the Conservative party last won a clear overall majority, and even that was a fairly small one, and 2015 was smaller still. If you’re going by age group, you get to 51-year-olds before you find more people willing to vote Conservative than Labour. In 2017 we went backwards in BAME voters, who are a more important part of the electorate in many constituencies – in the suburbs, small towns. | You have to think back to 1992 since the Conservative party last won a clear overall majority, and even that was a fairly small one, and 2015 was smaller still. If you’re going by age group, you get to 51-year-olds before you find more people willing to vote Conservative than Labour. In 2017 we went backwards in BAME voters, who are a more important part of the electorate in many constituencies – in the suburbs, small towns. |
The Tory party is facing some existential political challenges, and the union of the United Kingdom is under greater strain than I have never known it in my lifetime. There are some key constitutional issues, some really key political challenges for the party, and I think it’s really important that the candidates show they’re up for addressing that. | The Tory party is facing some existential political challenges, and the union of the United Kingdom is under greater strain than I have never known it in my lifetime. There are some key constitutional issues, some really key political challenges for the party, and I think it’s really important that the candidates show they’re up for addressing that. |
Echoing what Philip Hammond is saying in his Mansion House speech tonight (see 9.56am), on the union Lidington said: | Echoing what Philip Hammond is saying in his Mansion House speech tonight (see 9.56am), on the union Lidington said: |
The fact that England and Wales voted to leave in the referendum and Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain adds to those political tensions. We have to rediscover ways in which people can be both proudly Scottish and proudly British at the same time. I think the union of the UK needs to be a priority that runs through the heart of the next government. | The fact that England and Wales voted to leave in the referendum and Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain adds to those political tensions. We have to rediscover ways in which people can be both proudly Scottish and proudly British at the same time. I think the union of the UK needs to be a priority that runs through the heart of the next government. |
I certainly believe that a no-deal Brexit would add to the risks to the union – I don’t think it’s a secret I believe that – but I think, too, that we have to be confident about demonstrating that the union of United Kingdom brings benefits to every part of the Unitred Kingdom. | I certainly believe that a no-deal Brexit would add to the risks to the union – I don’t think it’s a secret I believe that – but I think, too, that we have to be confident about demonstrating that the union of United Kingdom brings benefits to every part of the Unitred Kingdom. |
The Conservative MP Kevin Foster, who voted for Sajid Javid this morning, says he has switched to Boris Johnson. | The Conservative MP Kevin Foster, who voted for Sajid Javid this morning, says he has switched to Boris Johnson. |
Just been to vote in the Conservative Party Leadership election. It was a privilege to back @sajidjavid yet in this round I decided to vote for @BorisJohnson who has the best chance of delivering Brexit & who as Mayor of London reached out beyond our core vote. #BackBoris pic.twitter.com/z7N50njkxh | Just been to vote in the Conservative Party Leadership election. It was a privilege to back @sajidjavid yet in this round I decided to vote for @BorisJohnson who has the best chance of delivering Brexit & who as Mayor of London reached out beyond our core vote. #BackBoris pic.twitter.com/z7N50njkxh |
Lord Heseltine, the Conservative former deputy prime minister and veteran pro-European, has told the BBC’s PM programme that he finds the state of his party “deeply depressing”. | Lord Heseltine, the Conservative former deputy prime minister and veteran pro-European, has told the BBC’s PM programme that he finds the state of his party “deeply depressing”. |
“I think it’s deeply depressing great swathes of the traditional Conservative supporting vote is now basically disenfranchised.” Lord Heseltine talks to @EvanHD about the state of the Tory party #ConservativeLeadershipRace #bbcpm | “I think it’s deeply depressing great swathes of the traditional Conservative supporting vote is now basically disenfranchised.” Lord Heseltine talks to @EvanHD about the state of the Tory party #ConservativeLeadershipRace #bbcpm |