Know. Well thank you brandon can i thank you and your team at conservative Central Office for doing a fantastic job its been a team effort and shown the conservative family at its best and if i could make one plainly as a backbencher can we be kind to the next Prime Minister than weve been to the current Prime Minister. Is it so without further to that im going to hand you over to the wonderful cochair of the 922 Committee Jane cheryl. Thank you very much charles on the 24th of may the Prime Minister the right honorable theresa may announced that she would be standing down as leader of our party on the 7th of june and over the past 46 days in 1022 committee organized 5 ballots of members of parliament and then worked with the Party Chairman and the Electoral Reform services to present the final 2 candidates say all qualifying members of the conservative and Unionist Party could vote for our new leader i want to check a childs thanks to brandon and in particular to the party board and the party star or less sterling work on the hustings and also the ers who have conducted a very professional operation collecting and counting the votes from home and abroad and also the 922 executive. Especially my cochairman Charles Walker with him it has been a pleasure to work and at least we have brought equality to the top of the 1922 committee. Gender balance is important. And the offices of the 1922 Committee SaidGeoffrey Clifton brown bob blackman and nigel evans all together here today and our own elementary staff who have given up their spare time to help conduct what i believe has been a very successful election finally i would like to thank all those Party Members who voted and those who stood in the election and particularly my colleagues jeremy hunt and or strengths and who despite the challenges of a contest run in the glare of press comment and public scrutiny i believe have emerged as worthy candidates for the position of leader of our. Now i think youve all been waiting long enough. But in the on edge tradition im going to ask my beautiful assistant to hand and hand me the on the late for the announcement a title. Its called teamwork. I danger will given the joint returning officer for the conservative and Unionist Party leadership election declared that the total number of eligible electors was 159320 the turnout in the election was 87. 4 percent the total number of ballot papers rejected was 509. 00 and the total number of votes given to each candidate was as follows jeremy hunt. 46656 or is johnson 92153 and therefore i give notice that Boris Johnson is elected as the leader of the constat you were it was with having a moment when the dame sarah get on the cochair of the 922 conservative committee announced the numbers that weve all been waiting for she said jeremy hunt. I listen to my stance has to say about this because this will you will i think. It was very much it with thank you sir thank you charles thank you very much brandon for a fantastic but actually were organized campaign i think it did a lot of credit as as brian has just said to our party to our values and to our ideals but i want to begin by thanking my opponent jeremy by Common Consent absolutely formidable campaigner and a great leader and a great politician join me in the course of 20 r. C. C. More i mean 20 hustings or hostin style events it was more than 3000 miles by the is about 7000 miles that we did crisscrossing the country youve been friendly youve been good natured youve been a front of excellent ideas all of which i propose to steal. And above all i want to thank going leda tourism mary for her Extraordinary Service to this party and to this country it was a. Was it was a privilege to serve in her cabinet and to see the passion and determination that she brought to the many causes that are her legacy from equal pay for men and women to tackling the problems of Mental Health and Racial Discrimination in the criminal Justice System thank you to reason thank you and i want to thank all of you all of you here today obviously everybody in the conservative party for your hard work for your campaigning and i feel public spirit and obviously for the extraordinary honor and privilege that youve just conferred on me and i. Know that there will be people around the place who will question the wisdom of your decision and i may even be some people here who still wonder what quite what they have done and i would just point out you that because nobody there one party no one person has a monopoly of wisdom but if you look at the history of the last 200 years of this partys existence you will see that it is we conservatives who have had the best insights i think into human nature and in the best interventions that it how to manage the jostling sets of instincts in the human heart. And time and again it is to us that the people of this country have turned to get that balance right between the instinct to own your own house your own home to spend your own money to look after your own family good instincts proper instincts noble instincts and the equally noble instinct to share and to give everyone a fair chance in life. And to look after the poorest of the neediest and to build a Great Society and on the whole of the last 200 years it is we conservatives who have understood best how to encourage those instincts to Work Together in harmony to promote the good of the whole country and today at this Pivotal Moment in our history we again have to reconcile 2 sets of instincts to noble set of instincts between the deep desire for friendship and free trade and mutual support in security and defense between britain and our European Partners and the similar taking its desire equally deep and heartfelt for democratic selfgovernment in this country. And of course or some people say that there irreconcilable and it just cant be done and indeed i read in my Financial Times this morning devoted reader that i have seriously the great great great Great BritishGreat British press that i read in my Financial Times this morning that there are no incoming leader there incoming leader has ever faced such a daunting set of circumstances it said when i look at you this morning and i ask myself do you look daunted. Do you feel dont lead i dont think i dont think you have remade me dont tell me and i think that we know that we can do it and that the people of this country are trusting in us to do it and we know that we will do it and we know the mantra of the campaign that has just gone by in case youve forgotten it. You probably have to go to college it is deliver brick city unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn and that is going to hurt. You. I dont know i know its not somewhere it goes already pointed out that deliver it night and defeat was not the perfect acronym for Election Campaign since our portion it spells doubt but they forgot the final easy my friend peter energize and i say i say to all the doctors. We are going to energize the country were going to get bricks it done on october 31st to take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can do and we are once again going to believe in ourselves and what we could achieve unlike some slumbering giant were going to rise and paying off the guy ropes are so tight and negativity with better education better infrastructure more police fantastic full Fiber Broadband sprouting in every household we are going to unite this amazing country and we are going to take it forward i thank you all very much for the incredible honor that youve just done me i will work flat out from now on with my team that i will build i hope for the next few days to repay your confidence but in the mean time the campaign is over and the work begins thank you all very much. So you have live pictures that come from the queens about the 2nd Convention Center in london of the results of the conservative Party Leadership race i suppose no surprises one by Boris Johnson that with 92153 votes against jeremy hunts 46656 a bust on some pretty much doubling jeremy hunts tally he was ecstatic and extremely high spirited as you saw it. He said that. The tour is of course will build unity for the whole of the country he talked about the deep desire to maintain ties with europe but also the need for democratic Self Governance by the United Kingdom and he went on to say that the mission for the conservative Party Going Forward was to deliver briggs it and to defeat the Labor Party LeaderJeremy Corbyn he talked about he wanted to energize the party and the country to deliver brigs it on october 31st so there you have it live pictures there coming from london where that result that much anticipated result was Just Announced lets bring in lawrence lee whos been watching the proceedings outside the center. So no surprises Boris Johnson now the new leader of the conservative party not yet the Prime Minister that happens tomorrow he spoke after the vote after those numbers were delivered just talk us through the numbers and what he had to say lawrence. Oh well let me guess is as he said he got exactly double the vote jeremy hunt so it was it was a not exactly a thrashing but it was senate comprehensive victory for him. As everybody had had anticipated and they that the membership of the conception of the 1st thing to say to the members of the conservative party who voted for him is absolutely in system the brics it has to happen and it was a most extraordinary a poll of conservative Party Members a few weeks ago the sets of them what would you give up for exit to happen and it was things like scotlands thats fine independent scotland Northern Ireland that can go to poverty and hardship thats fine we can have that the only thing they said they wouldnt give up for x. It could be a chair with b. P. For jenny colvin to be in power and this and this is the only insofar as chelsea speaking to rectitude in that that that distilled essence of Boris Johnson that you just saw that him say come on we can do it and he pushed the sound forward like this all the time and if he we can do it where where english the british the only source of white whats to stop us doing what we want to do. Is a direct appeal to to those people and plainly his strategy is to is to force bracks and over the line on the 31st of october come hell or high water as he said himself and then have a general election at some point further down the line and be Jeremy Coleman because thats what the policy wont see the problem here is that theres any number of people around here who would say hes got that the wrong way round and in fact what will happen because the so little appetite for a no deal brecht sits in his own party let alone elsewhere in the country that people will have to happen as a general election before he gets a chance to do it representative of those of us and if the election happens before them and theres no guarantee that rex it will ever happen until i let alone Boris Johnson carrying on and but that the thing that makes everybody so angry about Boris Johnson people dont like him is that he seems to be ignored. The obstacles in front of him things like you know the European Union and the irish border and all the sort of thing and says oh never mind all that lets just get on and do it and if thats really ignorance of the facts on the obstacles in this way to make so many people think its actually going to be a 1000000 times more difficult to do with anything since youre an annoyance its worth pointing out to our viewers that this is the 1st time a Prime Minister has been elected by Party Members or not m. P. s or the wider electorate but many senior ministers as weve been discussing this morning are already dessert in bars arent they. 6 yes and in the context of the fact that the conservative party even with the democratic units of Northern Ireland have a current majority i think its 3 actually at the moment and that may become 2 in a week or twos time because a by election in wales which the liberal democrats look like theyre going to win so that theyve got virtually no majority at all as he sees and consequently if you have even half a dozen say conserve m. P. s are the other important think like Philip Hammond the chancellor it was said hes going to resign tomorrow or even backbenchers who really wont support a note. It only means a few of them have to support. A vote of no confidence in the government for the government to collapse because they wouldnt be able to get enough labor politicians from the other side who support no deal so to head to balance it out and thats the enormous problem for Boris Johnson because when in september the labor Party Presents a version a comment in the governments if no deal is still in bars johnsons mind then endorsement is not they got to go through that vote no confidence thinking that he could easily lose it or hes got to call an election and face Jeremy Corbyn everybody else down and say this is going to be an election based on my demand for a no till breakfast and so that election and that then would effectively become a 2nd referendum in its in its own terms and so simply saying to all these Party Faithful here come on chaps lets go and do it it isnt going to work because theres just too many people who dont buy the entire can see to. Me that at the Queen Elizabeth the 2nd center in london where those results of the new took the tory Party Leadership were Just Announced lawrence thank you for that lets cross over now to westminster and talk to jonah hall whos live there for us now jonah so i mean the main issues that tripped up to reason may will also be the main hurdles for Boris Johnson he does face immense challenges at home and abroad particularly though over briggs it. Absolutely as lawrence was allowed mining there i mean here its the same with the parliament with the same if not virtual verging on the slightly worse numbers in terms of what hes trying to get through the only way that that changes with the general election and without that Boris Johnson hes going to find it in uphill struggle lets bring in my guest jerry jones former spokesman for to reason may and joe you know during the campaign Boris Johnson was often accused by hes opponents his fellow candidates of replacing substance and detail with this kind of fantastic optimism he did it again there didnt the said we can do it that we must believe in ourselves we will get this done the difficult part is explaining how yes i think thats fair having said that this particular speech which was basically sank all those involved in the in the whole campaign process and its before hes actually allowed in to eat into town and straight to become Prime Minister would have been the moment to lay out a full platform to govern i think we will expect to see some more substance when he speaks on his return to downing street tomorrow so in the street and then of course hes also chosen i think to make a speech in call them on on the thursday morning so the time for that sort of substance and it is then i will do it whether we might see a different Boris Johnson in this particular speech a bit more if you like so. With that mantle law of power and Prime Ministerial sorority descending all to him and i think it was actually very true to himself in the moment that well i mean it when it was quite quite serious and yet still with the big rhetorical flourishes about you know casting off the bombs of selfdoubt and all the rest of. It you know he said he wants to be true to forests. As well the problem is that you know hes talking about energizing and you know one thing im projecting that theme and think it through out the entire country he can get a thumping victory within the conservative. Grassroots but hes still a bit of a moment character in large parts of the United Kingdom and less than that in places like scotland the northern arc and of course of the united his own party at m. P. Level is going to be difficult enough when he does start setting out that detail tomorrow on wednesday and in parliament on thursday a lot of moderates potentially rebels in his own party will be watching closely for signs of how dedicated