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Country and can paint then its up to the conservative m.p.s for us they will vote and eliminate candidate by candidate and in the end 2 candidates will stand and they those names will be sent out to the party base to the conservative members and they get to decide in the end by july 22nd who will be the next conservative leader and therefore the new prime minister of the united kingdom. in london thank you. to mali where at least 95 people have been killed in attacks in the center of the country...

Dwors from the eu. now the -- dwors from tivorce f. now the woman leading it has more trouble. >> reporter: its going to make it much harder for whoever ends up leading the party as prime minister effectively by the end of today. the vote will take place in about eight hours time. what theresa may requires to continue as prime minister is the support of 158 of her conservative m.p.s, that is a simple majority of all the conservatives, m.p.s, in government at the moment. thats what shell be looki...

Perhaps because she still has a few m.p.s to convince. what must she achieve tonight in that vote? she needs a simple majority of all the conservative m.p.s, the magic number is 158. if he gets that, there cannot be another challenge to our leadership contest for a year. the brexit-eers, the hardliners who want britain to get out of the european union without a deal seem to be trying to bring down her leadership. but what she has warned today if they manage to do that and bring about a leadershi...

Following the general election results of last year, then at the moment theres no way you can see how this deal will get through. im sure shell pull back some of those conservative m.p.s who are threatening to rebel. but particularly without getting those votes of the northern ireland m.p.s, without it looking like any labor members of parliament will get through, i predict this deal wont get through. >> it will be interesting to see what theresa may does to try to gain support here. its not jus...

>> no, thats one thing where i think the conservative party have slightly misplayed this. nobody seriously believes if you have a different conservative leader there would have been a radically different deal that would have come back from brussels this weekend. now, its true that there are certain conservative m.p.s who are so annoyed with theresa mays plan that they want to try and get rid of her at this stage. but more broadly, within the conservative members of parliament, the reality is the...