Rory Stewart knocked out of Tory leadership contest in third round - live news Read moreStewart was leapfrogged by Sajid Javid, who increased his support by five votes to stay in the race. Raab endorsed Johnson in the morning and by the time voting had begun at 3pm, 14 of his 30 supporters had declared for Johnson. One of Raab’s former supporters insisted Stewart’s performance in the BBC hustings had been his downfall, rather than any dark arts of a leadership rival. Another former minister confided he had backed Stewart in the last round to see him take on Johnson, but had then switched to support Gove. Javid’s team insisted he would not be pulling out of the race, and denied he had borrowed votes to oust Stewart.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 17:14 UTC