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NEW: Tory candidates say they have uncovered plans by ministers to release new no-deal warnings *during* the leadership contest

They are saying this is government interference aimed at derailing those keeping no-deal on the table

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
DExEU confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Whitehall will continue to “update” no-deal advice over the summer…

Departments insist any new no-deal releases will be routine and a "sensible" part of their planning for all scenarios

Expect a fight over this...

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
Hunt v Gove battle to be the candidate from that side, but there is a third contender

Javid benefitting from what his allies are calling a "Saj surge" – taking MPs from Gove over his no-deal stance

Saj thinks he'll be on 60-70 MPs after first two rounds

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Gove is focussing on the One Nation caucus of moderate Tory MPs. He thinks he has 50 out of 60 of them onside

He is being helped by his former aide and well-known media performer @HenryNewman

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Government whips have been threatened with the sack if they're seen to be helping any campaign

Last time round the whips office *ran* May's campaign

Gove, Hunt and Saj all think they will take most of the undeclared 50 whips/vice chairs/1922 MPs...

buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
Timing...... here is the bombshell new no deal warning leaked to the FT... as we uncovered last week

"Confidential cabinet note warns UK not ready for a no-deal Brexit on October 31"

ft.com/content/a678db…
“It will be Project Fear like you’ve never seen it before" buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/to…
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NEW: The women and equalities select committee chair is in a legal dispute with a woman who has an NDA with her preferred leadership candidate, in the week her committee published a report criticising NDAs

Pretty extraordinary when you think about it: buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
'E', the woman who has the NDA with Dominic Raab, has written to Maria Miller complaining about her interview with the BBC in which Miller called the bullying claims "vexatious"

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Because of the NDA, 'E' cannot respond to Maria Miller's comments

Miller tells BuzzFeed News: “the matter is being handled by lawyers"

Extremely awkward for the woman and equalities committee chair...

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Alex Wickham
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NEW: Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Sajid Javid under pressure to withdraw this weekend

Their MP backers are telling them they have no chance of winning and want to be free to endorse one of the main candidates

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Team Gove say they're happy with the result but two weeks ago he was in clear second place, now trailing in third

MPs say it's not the coke story but his personal attacks on other candidates that have cost him

"It was undignified and hardly unifying"

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Boris Johnson won more votes than Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab combined

He won more than 3 times the the votes of Gove

And 87 more votes than Raab

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Alex Wickham
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NEW: Dominic Raab is refusing to lift a non-disclosure agreement he entered into with a female former colleague

The man who wants to be Prime Minister told BuzzFeed News the right time to lift the NDA was in court in 2012, not now

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In 2011 Raab’s lawyers wrote to woman ‘E’ telling her she faced “consequences” if she broke the NDA

They warned her “at the very least” she would have to repay a sum she was paid for her silence. “It should not be torn up lightly”

Read the letters here: buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
NEW: BuzzFeed News can reveal the "independent review" that Raab says cleared him was set up by the Conservative Party buzzfeed.com/albertonardell…
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