More on Brexit at Dominic Raab's launch. He says: "I don't want a WTO departure," adding: "We want a deal."

But, he adds, the UK will not receive a reworked deal from Brexit unless it shows it is prepared to walk away without one.

He says now is the time for the country to move "forwards, not backwards". He says the party needs to "winning the battle of ideas" and he wants a "buccaneering approach" to free trade.

"We've got to leave the environment in a better state than how we found it," he tells the room, and the Conservatives have to "embrace" new climate change technology.

Mr Raab promises to take some money from the international aid budget and put it into green policies and wildlife protection.

Leadership candidate Dominic Raab tells the room that the UK survived the economic turmoil of the 1970s.

He says that the UK has been "humiliated" on the world stage during the Brexit negotiations.

"We face the real threat of a hard-left government under Jeremy Corbyn," adding that Mr Corbyn is the type of man "my father fled".

"We can't just keep limping on like this," he says.

"We've got to deliver Brexit, until we do that, nothing else will count."

He says that he resigned as Brexit secretary as he wasn't prepared to "walk a bad deal over the line".

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A key backer of Jeremy Hunt says she is sure there will be no change to abortion law if he is the next PM - despite his personal views.

Mr Hunt told Sky News he was in favour of reducing the legal time limit for an abortion from 24 weeks to 12.

But the Tory leadership contender said it was only his "personal view".

Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said she felt "very strongly" about the issue, but he had reassured her "there will be no change to abortion law".

Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine said the foreign secretary's view was "incredibly alarming", while Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the leadership contest as a "horror show", which included "attacks on abortion rights".

Read more here.

Opening the Dominic Raab campaign launch, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee Maria Miller says that Dominic Raab has the "energy and resilience" to be prime minister and to deliver Brexit.

She says she supports his plan for a "fairer Britain".

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Matt Hancock said it is “absolutely right” for Michael Gove to stay in the race after the environment secretary admitted to cocaine use more than 20 years ago.

“We don't want to shuffle out from politics anyone who's had an indiscretion,” he said. “We don't just want people who've had a perfect past.”

The health secretary has said he “smoked cannabis a few times as a student, but had not taken any illicit drugs since”.

You could be forgiven for thinking that all of this launching and pledging sounds a lot like a general election campaign - especially given this is a contest to get into Downing Street as well as to become Conservative leader.

A reminder though - the general public has no say in this race. The hopefuls will be whittled down to two by Tory MPs and then the eventual winner will be chosen via a ballot of Conservative Party members.

There are currently thought to be about 124,000 of those. Read more about who they are here.

During his launch, Matt Hancock told the room that he'd pledge to raise the national living wage to more than £10 an hour by 2022 if he became prime minister.

It is currently £8.21 for those aged 25 and over.

He also said that when the government could afford it, it would reduce tax on working people.

Paul Johnson, from think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been giving his thoughts this morning on Boris Johnson's offer to cut the tax rate for those earning more than £50,000.

He picks up on the benefits it will have for different groups and notes that the biggest winners will be wealthy pensioners, and people living solely off investments, as neither pay National Insurance.

After 39 minutes, Matt Hancock has left the stage.

He says he's "very much looking forward" to seeing people on the campaign trail.