Pete Saull
Political Correspondent, BBC Westminster

A senior source in Tom Tugendhat’s leadership campaign has expressed confidence he won’t be knocked out of the contest today. “We think we’ve got the votes to get Tom through”, the source said.

They added that they were picking up votes from former backers of both Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt, although they admitted, “I don’t know what’s going on on the right of the party”, making the level of support for Suella Braverman difficult to gauge.

Pete Saull
Political Correspondent, BBC Westminster

Matt Hancock - himself a former leadership candidate - just turned up to vote.

“Anything going on?” He jokingly asks as he enters the room.

More than 80% of Conservative MPs have now cast their ballots in the second round, I’m told.

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Earlier on we reported that Lord Frost, the former chief Brexit negotiator, said he had "grave reservations" about Penny Mordaunt becoming the next prime minister.

We're now hearing Mordaunt's campaign team response:

Allies of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have urged Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch to abandon their leadership bids to help boost support for Truss.

A senior supporter of the foreign secretary said there was a need to "unite the right".

They added that supporters of Braverman and Badenoch should "recognise the reality of the situation".

But voting is already under way and both candidates are determined to fight on.

In a tweet including a picture of Braverman and Badenoch together, Badenoch said "this is the only blue on blue you'll be seeing from me and Suella Braverman during this campaign".

According to a recent YouGov poll, Badenoch has the support of 15% of the Tory Party and Braverman has 5% of support.

Meanwhile, according to the same poll, Truss has the support of 13% of the Conservative party.

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Pete Saull
Political Correspondent, BBC Westminster

Jeremy Hunt just voted - he got a consolatory hug from an MP outside, who says “sorry”.

Theresa May is one of the MPs confused by the change of rooms for the vote.

She initially walks off in the wrong direction before being called back to the right place.

“I’ve seen enough emails, I should know it’s room 14”, she says.

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Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Nicola Sturgeon says the Tory leadership contest is “deeply undemocratic” and underlines her argument for a fresh vote.

None of the candidates to replace Boris Johnson have indicated they would be willing to back Sturgeon’s plans for a referendum in October 2023.

And she said she did not think Scots would choose any of them to be prime minister, saying that “they all look pretty bad to me”.

She argues that there is a “democratic deficit” in the UK, because Scots have tended to elect SNP MPs in recent years – in elections which produced Conservative governments.

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While a new round of voting begins in Westminster, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been delivering a speech making the case for Scottish independence.

She says the change of Tory leader seems certain to be accompanied by a shift even further to the right.

That's a shift from the mainstream and Scottish values, she adds.

The first minister says Boris Johnson has no democratic endorsement whatsoever from Scotland and he will be replaced by another prime minister that Scotland has not voted for.

She says Labour will not be the solution, because "where the Tories go Labour seems obliged to follow".

The first minister adds: "What Scotland is hearing and seeing from Westminster parties encapsulates the democratic deficit that we face as part of the UK."

Voting began at 11:30 on the dot, despite a change of rooms appearing to confuse some Conservative MPs.

They're being told to have their “phone and pass, ready, please”, to confirm their identity and prevent them from taking photos of what is supposed to be a secret ballot.

Like yesterday, the frontrunner among MPs, Rishi Sunak, is the first of the candidates to vote.

Pete Saull
Political Correspondent, BBC Westminster

Liz Truss has hotfooted it over from her campaign launch to appear at the hustings. I ask her how it’s all going, she simply smiles and says “good.”

Meanwhile Conservative MPs are starting to arrive for the second round of voting.

The proceedings have moved about 30 metres down the corridor from yesterday.

The vote will take place in Committee Room 14, rather than 10, which appears to be confusing a few of them…

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Visual Journalism Team

After the vote last night, betting odds on the candidates shifted sharply. Here's how they're looking now:

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Penny Mordaunt has surged ahead and now leads by a significant margin.

Rishi Sunak, who was in the lead in the five days following Boris Johnson's resignation, now finds himself in second place, with other rivals trailing behind.

Pete Saull
Political Correspondent, BBC Westminster

I’m in Portcullis House, the building opposite the Houses of Parliament where most MPs have their offices.

In a meeting room here, members of the moderate “One Nation” group of Conservative MPs are grilling each of the leadership candidates in turn.

The current frontrunner in terms of MPs’ votes, Rishi Sunak, was first in. One of his backers tells me she’s pleased with the way his campaign is going.

At the other end of the spectrum, the current 6th place candidate, Suella Braverman, is battling to stay in the race.

I have a brief chat with her as she files through her notes - and she insists she definitely won’t be pulling out ahead of the second round of voting.

Kemi Badenoch won’t stop for a chat and instead paces up and down the corridor, reciting her lines.

I hear a decent level of “table-banging” coming from inside the room after she finishes her opening speech.

More Brexit, and this time we can tell you want Tom Tugendhat thinks about it.

He's asked if he wishes he voted for Brexit in the 2016 referendum, as opposed to remain.

He says there are clearly issues - "single markets, custom union, it doesn't work".

And while he does not regret his 2016 vote, he says he intends to deliver on the result.

"Once you get your orders you march on - I got my order in June 2016 and I intend to deliver them".

"Northern Ireland still needs to be maintained within the union whole and integral, there's no question about that," he says.

Talking about migration, Tugendhat says the UK is "now in a position to make decisions on who comes, who goes, how exactly we manage that process".

Ione Wells
Political correspondent, BBC News

Allegations about the former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher were one of the key factors in the ministerial resignations that led to Boris Johnson saying he would stand down.

When asked whether Tom Tugendhat thought Chris Pincher should stay an MP, he said:

“Everyone is innocent until they are proven guilty.

"Anyone who is guilty of such an extraordinary crime? There is no question they should lose their seat.”

Next up, Liz Truss's stance on Brexit is under the spotlight.

Rival Penny Mordaunt, who beat her in last night's vote, backed Brexit from the start, an ITV reporter says, asking whether she should now swing behind her campaign.

Truss - who voted to remain in the EU - says since the referendum in 2016 she has done "so much to deliver on the promises of Brexit".

She says she's delivered "dozens" of trade deals and delivered the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill to "fix the issues that we have in Northern Ireland".

And she says as prime minister she'd be committed to "unleashing the full opportunities of Brexit".

Questions are still coming over Liz Truss' role in Boris Johnson's government.

The BBC's Chris Mason - whose thoughts we have just posted - asks about Truss's credibility, given her association with the discredited PM.

She says, as foreign secretary, she is proud of the leadership the UK has shown in driving forward sanctions against Russia and supplying Ukraine with weapons.

She concedes that "internally" she was critical of the National Insurance rise - but adds she is "a loyalist, who believes in collective responsibility".

Chris Mason
Political editor

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Liz Truss is focusing on what she sees as her capacity to deliver as prime minister.

But the questions us reporters are focusing on revolve around someone not here: Penny Mordaunt.

Truss has been in Boris Johnson’s cabinet throughout and didn’t resign — and so it is harder for her than Mordaunt to claim to be an agent of change.

Team Truss argue she is the real deal now and is ready to be prime minister — a not so subtle dig at Penny Mordaunt, who has much, much less experience at the top of government.

Ione Wells
Political correspondent, BBC News

Responding to comments by Lord Frost this morning, saying that he has “grave reservations” about rival Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugenhadt said he had no comments to make about her.

“This is a pretty tough job interview. People who know you from your former existence come out and say things about you publicly.

“It’s not always easy, but I think it’s fair. It’s fair those who know you express views. Some of them will be nice and some of them less so.

"This is a really short interview round for a hell of a big job.”

Asked if he plans to cut funding other areas to fund his proposed increased defence spending to 3% of the GDP, Tugendhat says he plans to set out a 10-year plan for growth.

"We know you can't balance the whole economy on one year or one month, we need to balance it over time and over generations and over different parts of the community," he says.

He says this can be done in investment in technology and different ways of taxing and spending.

"We're talking about ways to make taxation more predictable, fair and balanced, and we have massively overcomplicated the tax process which should be a process that works for all of us and is available to all of us," he says.

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Back at Liz Truss's speech, questions are up next, and reporters aren't pulling any punches.

Sky asks whether Boris Johnson's "tacit" backing of Liz Truss is "the kiss of death" for her candidacy, given the party wants change.

You may remember the two candidates who came ahead of her in last night's vote were Rishi Sunak - who resigned from Johnson's government - and Penny Mordaunt, who was only very briefly in his cabinet.

Truss doesn't directly answer the question, instead saying the change that is needed is on the economy, with "sluggish growth" for two decades.