🔴 NEW: Rishi Sunak receives further boost as Steve Barclay declares support
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➡️Rishi Sunak has vowed to run the economy like Margaret Thatcher if he becomes the next prime minister, telling Tory leadership rivals: “You have to earn what you spend.”
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🔴 I would reject role in Sunak's cabinet over his 'disloyalty', says Jacob Rees-Mogg
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🔵Tom Tugendhat is holding a snap press conference outside Parliament.
He has spoken of the need for the UK to spend enough on defence and of the need to "reinforce British strength"
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🔴Andrea Leadsom, the former Cabinet minister, is backing Penny Mordaunt in the Tory leadership race.
Ms Leadsom was the warm up act at Ms Mordaunt's launch event
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🔴Penny Mordaunt formally launches Tory leadership bid
Mordaunt said that "recently I think our party has lost its sense of self" and that it needed to "get back to" its standard messages of "low tax, small state, personal responsibility"
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❓Where are we now? What comes next?
The field of Tory leadership candidates may narrow once the results of the first round of voting are announced at 5pm.
Candidates are now required to have the backing of 30 MPs to make it to the next round
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🔴Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer for first time since resignation
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📽️Watch PMQs live here⤵️
🔴PMQs got off to a chaotic start as Neale Hanvey and Kenny McAskill, two Alba Party MPs were ejected.
The pair refused to sit down as they appeared to shout at Boris Johnson, prompting Sir Lindsay Hoyle to tell them "either shut up or get out"
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🔴There are now reports that the Government is tabling a confidence motion in itself, with a vote to be held in the House of Commons in the coming days.
The Telegraph understands that the vote could take place on Monday next week
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🗣️Boris Johnson has said it could be his last PMQs
"The next leader of my party may be elected by acclamation so it is possible this will be our last confrontation over this despatch box, it is possible"
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➡️Boris Johnson has told MPs that when he leaves No 10, he will do so "with my head held high".
"I am proud of the fantastic team work that has been involved in all of those projects both nationally and internationally"
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🔴Boris Johnson is combatting Labour’s plans to force a no confidence vote by tabling a motion to ask MPs whether they have confidence in the Government
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🔵Eight Tory leadership candidates remained in the race on Tuesday evening after each securing the backing of at least 20 MPs.
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🔴Boris Johnson plans to leave No 10 on September 6 if the next Tory leader is chosen the day before as planned, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman has said
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🚨Voting is now underway in the first round of the Tory leadership contest.
Tory MPs will have until 3.30pm to cast their ballot, choosing between the eight remaining candidates.
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📊Penny Mordaunt is the clear favourite among Tory Party members to replace Boris Johnson and she would beat all of her rivals in a final head-to-head contest, a new poll has suggested.
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🔴All eight candidates in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader have now voted.
Nadhim Zahawi was the last candidate to vote in the ballot this afternoon, ahead of voting closing at 3.30pm
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➡️There are currently only two leadership candidates who have more than 30 MPs publicly backing them.
Rishi Sunak has the public support of 53 MPs and Penny Mordaunt has 36
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🚨BREAKING: The results of the first round of the #ToryLeadershipRace
🔹Kemi Badenoch - 40
🔹Suella Braverman - 32
❌Jeremy Hunt - 18 - OUT
🔹Penny Mordaunt - 67
🔹Rishi Sunak - 88
🔹Liz Truss - 50
🔹Tom Tugendhat - 37
❌Nadhim Zahawi - 25 - OUT
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The results leave six candidates for MPs to vote on tomorrow.
📊Rishi Sunak, as expected, is out in the lead with 88 votes, although is followed more closely expected by Penny Mordaunt, who has 67 backers.
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"Rishi Sunak is by no means guaranteed to be in the final two. And some ruthless deal cutting now could see him squeezed out"
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Tom Tugendhat tells Nadhim Zahawi: "You’re a great man, you’ve been a great candidate and you’re a great friend. Frontline politics needs you."
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