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NEW: Rory Stewart has pitched his leadership campaign as a plucky DIY effort with handheld videos of him meeting voters

Behind the scenes it is being bankrolled by a Russian financier who ran a hedge fund focussing on stocks in Russia and the former USSR

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Rory Stewart's campaign is being funded by Lev Mikheev, a Russian-born banker

He set up Salute Capital, named after the Soviet space station programme Salyut... it focussed on investing in stocks in Russia and Eastern Europe

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Lev Mikheev has been described as a “billionaire financier with offices in London and next door to the Kremlin in the Russian capital”

Rory didn't mention that in his fun Twitter vid from Speaker's Corner...

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Rory Stewart's spokesperson tells BuzzFeed News he has placed a £10,000 cap on donations

"This is the only campaign with a genuinely broad base including people from the world of sport, theatre, agriculture and technology"........ and Russian hedgies

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Ahead of Lobby hustings...

Matt Hancock's MPs are mainly splitting between Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart, not to Hunt/Gove/Saj – so much so that rival campaigns increasingly think Stewart will make the threshold tomorrow and have his BBC debate showdown with Johnson
Team Javid battling hard to stay alive

Their MPs are telling colleagues Stewaert been in parliament same amount of time as Saj but has achieved nothing. While Stewart has been "having conversations", Saj has been running govt departments
Pro-Saj MPs also warning colleagues that if they let Rory Stewart through tomorrow it will turn into a bloody public slanging match "which will only benefit Corbyn"

But some Remain MPs increasingly want to help Stewart through to put Johnson under maximum scrutiny
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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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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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