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People were supporting boris, meaning anyone —— were in the so—called anyone but rishi camp. probably also thinking if i can get into the final two, maybe the members would vote for me. lots of polling show that penny mourdant was very popular, so from her point of view, shes still wanting to hold her cards close to her chest and see how far she gets.— how far she gets. whats your assessment — how far she gets. whats your assessment of _ how far she gets. whats your assessment of it, _...

225 out of 357 tory mps have now gone public with their support. as you heard, rishi sunak has passed the key threshold of 100 backers, borisjohnson has 57 and penny mordaunt 23. its worth pointing out that these are the numbers the bbc can verify — others may have different information. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas joins me from westminster. damian, boris johnson is damian, borisjohnson is still to declare. his supporters say he has got 100 backers, declare. his supporters s...

For that to happen at this stage. here with me now is lucy fisher, she is the chief political commentator for the times radio. borisjohnson is boris johnson is keeping borisjohnson is keeping everyone hanging on, why do you think that is? i think it is clear, there are only 60 mps that have publicly declared for him. these keeping a tally of additional mps who they say are privately backing him, whether they are whips are private members of the party who do not want to back him publicly for some...

Come in now that borisjohnson has gone. borisjohnson having 102, rishi sunak having 150 audit would make it all but impossible for penny mourdant to cross the threshold. we will have to see how many of those mps would be prepared or would sooner create a contest and follow a line which did not involve rishi sunak in charge of the party. its been quite an hour here at new broadcasting house, and yet another hour of drama in the ongoing saga of who runs this country. who will be in charge of the g...

Judgment on policy. taking much for “oininr us judgment on policy. taking much for joining us and _ judgment on policy. taking much for joining us and giving _ judgment on policy. taking much for joining us and giving us _ judgment on policy. taking much for joining us and giving us your - joining us and giving us your response to the news that is come into us that borisjohnson who over the last few minutes has issued a statement in which he has declared that he will not be standing as a candi...

Parliament where they both candidates will have to present themselves with up there will be a vote of mps, which would be in indicative vote. it would show how many mps support each candidate and that vote would then be. michael forward to the conservative party members who have all week until friday next week to do in on line vote to choose one of the two. they will have seen ben which m p, how many mps favour each candidate or the alternative, only one passes the threshold at the minute rishi ...

But now you face another issue, and that is it could spiral out of control to what they call a tactical -- the use of tactical nuclear weapons. i dont think that materially matters if its tactical or strategic. the world has not crossed that threshold for 77 years, and i think it requires very firm and prudent stewardship to prevent that from happening, because as horrible as the tragedies are today in ukraine, you could face a much bigger tragedy if this is not prevented. >> i was in kyiv about...

Change of heart on sunday. why might that be if he had the numbers? it could be that he realized even if he met the threshold needed to stand in the leadership contest it simply wouldnt be possible for him to govern. lets remember when he had to step down as prime minister 148 of his own lawmakers had voted against him in a vote of no confidence in his leadership. around 60 of his ministers resigned saying things like they thought he was unfit for office. the very thought to a lot of those peopl...

Our men pilfered from locked safes half a ton of materials, disks, documents, and were being chased by iranian security. they got themselves out, and when we looked at this material, we could see that iran was lying, that it wasnt keeping to the agreement. in fact, we then went to the iaea with three sites, three nuclear sites that they hadnt declared. so iran was cheating. the deal wasnt protecting in any way. and yes, with or without a deal, iran would go forward to develop nuclear weapons. th...

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