Stewart surge knocks Raab out of Tory leader race – and threatens even Johnson
Sucker punch: Dominic Raab has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership race after Rory Stewart enjoyed a surge that doubled his support among MPs.
Surprise results from the second round of the Conservative Party leadership election show a big leap in support for Rory Stewart.
Mr Stewart, who scraped into the second round of the election in bottom place, has doubled his support, leapfrogging both Dominic Raab and Sajid Javid.
Mr Raab is out now; Mr Javid may be out next time.
Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove will be disappointed; their support base has hardly changed since the first round.
Neither has Boris Johnson’s. And he will have been hoping to dodge having to clash with Mr Stewart in the BBC’s televised debate this evening (June 18).
Mr Stewart will want to ask the race leader whether he has been making contradictory promises to different groups in order to secure their support and Mr Johnson’s response to this and other questions may dictate the result of the contest.
But who will get Dominic Raab’s votes?
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Raab, the Tory answer to the turnip (an insult to turnips, they’re far more intelligent).