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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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How the Raab campaign tanked:

Three weeks ago he was saying he could beat Boris in round 1

Two weeks ago Team Raab briefed that Boris needed 20 more votes than him in the first round to stay ahead

Today Boris got 87 more votes than Raab

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Team Boris think Raab’s supporters will largely switch over to him

Hancock is being told by MPs to fold in behind either Hunt or Javid this weekend

Raab, Hancock and Javid at the moment insisting they will not withdraw

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