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BBC Radio 5 Live has been asking listeners for their hopes and fears under the new Conservative Party leader.

William in Ilkley says: “I just wish everyone would step back for a second. If it is Boris Johnson… he will be representing our country. Can we all just get behind him? This is a very important time for our country - the next few months are going to set the scene for the foreseeable future.

"I think this constant sniping and undermining him even before he's become prime minister, if that's what happens, is just wrong. I just think people should be a bit more positive, a bit more optimistic…”

Patrick in Bath says: “We have lined up for us two middle-aged white guys, who are born into privilege, who operate in a land of multi-millionaires, who are privately educated. Same old, same old…

"When I look at these two people… voted in by a tiny, tiny number of people, suddenly slipping into the role, I don’t see anything changing."

Fiona in Caithness says: “I’ve been Labour all my life, but if [Boris Johnson] goes in today, I will be voting SNP, and I am sure lots of other people will. We will not be governed by Boris if we can possibly help it."

Angela in London says: “I am an enormous Boris fan. I think it's a bit risky but I think at this stage in proceedings in our country we really need someone like Boris. I don’t think there’s anyone else that could get us out of Europe, and hopefully stop Jeremy Corbyn getting into power.

"I don't think it helps if the EU hear all this squabbling and criticising him the whole time. That's not going to help in any negotiations."

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Boris Johnson supporter Chris Philp says that Mr Johnson will be able to build consensus in the House of Commons in order to deliver Brexit.

With "virtually no majority, we do need to stick together" in the Conservative party, says the Croydon South MP, and warns that the Labour party and Liberal Democrats continue to "play games" as they have over the past year.

"The only alternative is to leave with no deal or have another referendum" if an agreement cannot be reached, he adds. But he says "we've already had a referendum".

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Nigel Evans, conservative backbench MP, tells the BBC: "The only thing that's certain is that Larry the Cat is going to stay in place as the Downing Street cat.

"Prime ministers come and go, Larry remains in place."

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Conservative MP and Brexiteer Nigel Evans says he believes that the European Union will take the UK Brexit process seriously when the UK manages to secure a trade deal with America, something that Europe so far has failed to do.

But, he warns the party "got hammered in the local elections, hammered in the European Union elections," he states, adding that the UK has to leave by 31 October.

"The first thing Boris will have to do is pull some of the knives out of his back," he says. "Trying to trip him up before he's even entered the door is rather bizarre" he says of Sir Alan Duncan, who resigned as a Foreign Office minister on Monday to call for a vote of confidence in a new Johnson government.

"He's got to really start focusing on uniting the party," he adds, "you can't just pack the cabinet full of Brexiteers, otherwise you really are storing up trouble for the future".

Tory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has arrived at Downing Street for Theresa May's final cabinet meeting - just over two hours before finding out whether he will be taking her place in No 10.

Rory Stewart is among the ministers attending who will expect it to be their final cabinet after indicating they won't serve under frontrunner Boris Johnson.

Chris Skidmore, universities minister, turned the lens on the watching media as he arrived.

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Belgian Green MEP and member of the Brexit Steering Group in the European Parliament Phillippe Lamberts has said that the new prime minister "will be confronting the exact same situation as Theresa May".

He criticised Mr Johnson for wanting many "contradictory things...like he wants good relations with the European Union and he wants to be able to cut off all ties and not have the Irish backstop and all the rest of it".

He suggested that Mr Johnson should seek to pass a Brexit deal with a Northern Ireland-only backstop, something which would lose the support of the DUP but could pick up support from elsewhere in the Commons.

"If I were Boris Johnson I would do just that and then call for a general election which I think he could then win having delivered a form of Brexit," he said.

Ministers have been arriving at Downing Street for Theresa May's final cabinet meeting as prime minister, which starts at 09:30 BST.

Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis and Business Secretary Greg Clark were among those pictured outside No 10, as the media gathers ahead of the announcement of a new PM.

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The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler says "EU leaders say they will listen to a new prime minister" and "can't be seen to abandon small member states" in the Brexit process, referring to Ireland.

She adds that the EU can't change its position now as it would undermine its negotiations with other trade partners.

The backstop protects Ireland as well as the EU single market, so they won't want to make any changes to it, she tells the programme.

She adds that the EU will only take a new prime minister seriously if they can command support from Parliament.

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As we wait to find out who will be named the next prime minister, how much do you know about the former leaders of the UK?

• Tony Blair was the longest serving Labour prime minister. How many years was he in office? Eight years, nine years, or 10 years
• Throwing things at politicians is unfortunately nothing new. Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson was hit in the eye with something in 1969. What was it? A stink bomb, a satsuma or a sponge
• Which of these prime ministers left school at 16? Harold Wilson, Tony Blair or John Major

Find out the answers and do the full BBC Bitesize quiz here

Jeremy Hunt has left his house to walk to work and told the waiting press pack that he was not going to be taking interviews.

Asked if he thought he had won the contest, he said: "Who knows?"

He also told journalists he does not yet know who has won the contest.

"I'm feeling very positive, but who knows what's going to happen?"

When asked if he would serve under Boris Johnson, he said it's "all to be seen, let's wait for the result".

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The new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, who beat her rival Sir Ed Davey in a leadership contest yesterday, has told the BBC she is open to any Conservative rebels who want to join her party.

"I think there is a reason why thousands of people are joining the Liberal Democrats, when the Conservatives have gone off to the right and Labour have gone off to the left," she said.

The public "want to see a better politics, a better alternative than the frankly depressing choice of Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn, they can join us because there is a better way", she added.