Summary

  • Final two candidates - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - go to a vote of Conservative Party members

  • Environment Secretary Michael Gove knocked out of contest

  • Mr Johnson got the support of more than 50% of Conservative MPs

  • Home Secretary Sajid Javid was eliminated in another ballot, earlier on Thursday

  1. MPs arriving to hear the resultpublished at 17:43 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    Our colleague Jo, a stalwart of the voting corridor, says MPs are now coming back into the room for the result. As with previous days, Boris Johnson's supporters are there first.

  2. How will the result be announced?published at 17:40 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    The leadership contest is being run by the backbench 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs.

    In previous rounds, the executive members of the committee have filed in and one - so far it's been joint chair Dame Cheryl Gillan - has read out the results.

    They've come in alphabetical order, along with the number of votes each has secured.

  3. Johnson 'open to questioning'published at 17:24 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    On criticism that Mr Johnson has avoided the media spotlight and thus avoided scrutiny, Michael Fallon insists his candidate is being scrutinised in one-to-one meetings with MPs and Parliamentary hustings.

    He was scrutinised on Tuesday evening's BBC TV debate too, Mr Fallon says.

    "You can't say he's not been open to questioning."

  4. One team heads to the pubpublished at 17:22 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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  5. Boris Johnson's team hopeful of winning third ballotpublished at 17:21 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    Former defence secretary Michael Fallon, who is backing Boris Johnson, says he hopes they have won the ballot again.

    He dismisses speculation of any tactical voting to get rid of certain candidates.

    "We’re not encouraging people to vote for anyone else," Mr Fallon says.

    On Brexit he says Mr Johnson's "fresh idea" is to look at renegotiating the withdrawal agreement.

    "He’ll be bringing a fresh approach and a fresh team," he says.

    The EU has consistently said it will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement.

  6. Gove registers most in donations over last fortnightpublished at 17:17 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    Latest figures show that in the last two weeks, Michael Gove has registered the most in campaign donations at £150,000, with Rory Stewart in second having registered £108,000.

    Dominic Raab - who was knocked out of the leadership race yesterday - came in third with £90,000, whilst Jeremy Hunt was fourth with £82,000.

    Over the previous fortnight, frontrunner Boris Johnson came in last with £25,000.

    However, the picture for donations in 2019 so far is a different story: Mr Johnson has raised £194,000 overall, second only to Mr Raab, who managed £222,000.

    Read more about donations here.

  7. Last night's debate reached millions of viewerspublished at 17:14 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    The debate between the five candidates for the Tory leadership received an average audience of 5.3 million viewers, according to overnight figures, making it BBC One’s most watched programme of the day.

    The programme attracted more viewers for the channel than both EastEnders (4.6 million) and the finale of drama Years and Years (1.7 million).

    It was also a significant increase on the 1.3 million who watched Channel 4’s debate on Sunday - Boris Johnson didn't participate in that one.

  8. Could the candidates stick to 50 words on Brexit?published at 17:12 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    The Conservative leadership candidates all know that solving the Brexit conundrum is their number one task.

    But how do they propose to do it? And if they can't, what are their contingency plans?

    BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the remaining leadership candidates to outline their Brexit proposals.

    The catch? They were asked answer the questions in 50 words or less.

    See how they did...

  9. Voting has closed in third ballotpublished at 16:59 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    Voting has now closed in the third round of the Tory leadership contest.

    Results are expected soon after 18:00 BST.

  10. Corbyn to meet union leaders on Mondaypublished at 16:46 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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  11. No 'dramatic shift' for Labourpublished at 16:40 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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  12. 'Real choices for Leave and Remain'published at 16:32 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    This is Jeremy Corbyn's statement to the shadow cabinet on another referendum in full:

    "We have committed to respecting the result of the referendum, and have strongly made the case for an alternative plan for Brexit as the only serious deal that could potentially command the support of the House.

    "At Conference last year we passed our policy, the members' policy. Over the past nine months, I have stuck faithfully to it. A no-deal Brexit would plunge us into the worst excesses of disaster capitalism and trash our economy on the back of fantasy Tory trade deals, or worse, very real and very damaging trade deals with Donald Trump, opening up our NHS to American companies.

    "I have already made the case, on the media and in Dublin, that it is now right to demand that any deal is put to a public vote. That is in line with our conference policy which agreed a public vote would be an option.

    "A ballot paper would need to contain real choices for both Leave and Remain voters. This will, of course, depend on Parliament. I want to hear your views, I will be hearing trade union views next week, and then I want to set out our views to the public."

  13. Stewart hopeful of support from ex-Raab backerspublished at 16:27 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    Speaking in the corridor outside the room where MPs were voting a little while ago, Rory Stewart said he believed he had won support from two former backers of Dominic Raab, who was eliminated yesterday.

    He said he was worried he may have lost support from another voter though.

    There may be "dark arts" at play, he added - meaning tactical voting.

    "This is all a mystery but we will know at 6 o'clock."

  14. Corbyn statement on further referendumpublished at 16:25 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    We told you earlier about more than 25 Labour MPs writing to Jeremy Corbyn urging him not to go Some in the party, including deputy leader Tom Watson, want him to say he'll campaign for another referendum in all circumstances and back staying in the EU.

    There had been suggestions Mr Corbyn was planning to strengthen his stance, but his latest statements to the shadow cabinet this afternoon suggest any movement is minor at this stage.

  15. Johnson 'backing away' from Brexit commitmentpublished at 16:21 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    Michael Gove backer George Eustice says Boris Johnson is "backing away" from his commitment to leave the EU "come what may" in October now Brexiteer rival Dominic Raab is out.

    He says the new leader needs to be someone who respects the referendum result, campaigned to Leave and truly believes in it.

    Mr Johnson is certain to get to the final ballot paper, he says, but there is an alternative in Mr Gove.

    The environment secretary works very hard and gets his head around complex issues, Mr Eustice adds.

  16. May tight-lipped againpublished at 16:19 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

    Theresa May has cast her vote in the leadership ballot. As before she tells reporters "none of your business" when they ask who she's backing.

    According to her spokesman, she hasn't even told her husband Philip.

  17. Watch: Will PM deliver on her medical cannabis promise?published at 16:13 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    PMQs: Tonia Antoniazzi asks PM about medical cannabis

    A Labour MP asks the prime minister why families are still waiting for medical cannabis to treat children with severe epilepsy. Watch here or via this link.

  18. Stewart 'offers city status' in return for votepublished at 16:13 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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  19. Hunt supporter confident of 'a good second'published at 16:06 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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  20. Reality Check: Can we 'sort out the Irish border later'?published at 16:05 British Summer Time 19 June 2019

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    Boris Johnson saying: the way to come out is taking the solution of the Irish border issues [and] putting that into the implementation period after we leave