, read its chairman, bob blackman, read out the scores on the doors in the middle of this afternoon asbe eliminated from the conservative leadership race and declare the result of the third ballot the highest foot storm surges. the highest ever for the region. and of course , widespread over hurricane helene claimed over 200 lives in the southern eastern parts of the united states . well, those are your states. well, those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm lewis mckenzie. more from me in an hour's time. but now it's back to nigel for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> good evening. and said a few years ago, i bet you'd never even heard of the 1922 committee, which of course is the committee of conservative members of parliament. but given that the party is about to elect its sixth leader, they're back, of course, in the news today and its chairman , bob blackman, read its chairman, bob blackman, read out the scores on t

, read its chairman, bob blackman, read out the scores on the doors in the middle of this afternoon asbe eliminated from the conservative leadership race and declare the result of the third ballot in the leadership contest. >> 120 votes were cast, and the votes for each candidate were as follows. kemi badenoch, 30. james cleverly 39. robert jenrick, 31. and tom tugendhat , jenrick, 31. and tom tugendhat, 20. so as a result of that ballot, tom tugendhat is eliminated from the contest . eliminated from the contest. >> so, as predicted, tom tugendhat is out. and as i said to you last week when i sat and watched very, very carefully the speeches that they all gave at the conservative party conference, it was clear to me that cleverly was the one that impressed. i'm not talking policy. i'm talking about looking like somebody who actually was in command and cleverly was miles better than the other. the big disappointment for those on the centre right of the conservative party, i think, to be honest , party, i think, to be honest, was the performance of jenrick. you know, if you go out and sp

what was fascinating was there were gasps in the room as that result was called by bob blackman.rly was going to be knocked out. he seemed to have an unassailable lead and momentum. it is so important in politics, he had the momentum yesterday and yet kemi badenoch topped the poll with a 42, robertjenrick one votes behind with 41, james cleverly knocked out. the choice is now kemi badenoch and robertjenrick, two candidates who i think we can characterise as being on the right of the party. that is an astonishing turnaround and we are now going to try and understand how those votes shuffled around in this final ballot to produce that result. tory party members will be pleased because many, according to the polls, and people i have spoken to as well, wanted kemi badenoch to be in that final pairing. she is now in the race, it is a fight between kemi badenoch and robert jenrick. �* , kemi badenoch and robert jenrick. �*, , ., jenrick. let's remind people of this numbers _ jenrick. let's remind people of this numbers again. _ jenrick. let's remind people of this numbers again. robert

it is not expected that rishi sunak will vote and it is not expected bob blackman, who chairs the committeeetically up for grabs between the four candidates who are currently left in. the rules are pretty simple, whoever gets the lowest numbers of votes will be eliminated and then there will be a further round of voting tomorrow, which will whittle it down further to just two candidates, and those two candidates will be put to a vote of conservative members. we are talking about a couple of candidates who are more on the right of the party and a couple more centrist would be the right description of the four candidates remaining, so where do people think, or what does that tell us about the direction in which the party might go? it direction in which the party might go?— direction in which the party might go? direction in which the party miauhto? , , . ., might go? it depends which one is chosen as _ might go? it depends which one is chosen as to _ might go? it depends which one is chosen as to which _ might go? it depends which one is chosen as to which way - might go? it depends which one

tom tugendhat, bob blackman there, the chairman of the party making the announcement, chris hope.d maybe the pecking order, but a dramatic surge there towards james cleverly, who's done very, very well in this round of voting . round of voting. >> yeah. well, what we forecast that that cleverly would win if i'm robert jenrick, i'm worrying right now because he was on 33 mps. he's now falling back by 2 to 31. kevin badenoch has gained 2 to 30. and i'm i'm not sure why i'm heather wheeler is gasping i mean i think that jenrick is now in trouble and he wasn't in trouble until now because it looks like kemi badenoch has momentum that robert robert jenrick may not have. he's losing momentum and that's and in this game you want to always have forward motion in all of politics, particularly with the tory backbench mps, james cleverly is now for me, he's one short of the 40. you need to be a candidate in the final two. he's nailed on, i think to be in the final two with 20 mps overnight. now deciding where to put their x in the box, i reckon half of those from tom tugendhat might go to ja

bob blackman, bob blackman, the chairman of the 22 committee in charge of the whole process.s, once again, excellent, excellent work this week from birmingham. thank you very much, my friend, for joining birmingham. thank you very much, my friend, forjoining us here my friend, for joining us here on the show. and i'm joined in the studio back in westminster by former labour adviser gopal varma and matthew torbett. matthew, welcome to the show. so from a labour perspective , from a labour perspective, you've seen the performances of the four runners and the riders who would the labour party most fear as the next conservative party leader and why? >> judging from the clips, i'd say nigel farage. >> actually, i think that's the one everybody needs to fear. >> but no, i think i've thought for some time and encouraged him when i saw him in parliament to run. i think james cleverly would be the one i would fear the most. why is that? i think he looks. he looks the part, he sounds the part, and i think he he i think i'm right in thinking he's got the most experience. he's got the mi

this was my reaction in parliament earlier, as the news was announced by bob blackman from 1922, committeeow . i don't know now. i don't know what has happened. now. i don't know what has happened . oh my god , what's happened. oh my god, what's happened. oh my god, what's happened ? oliver laurence that, happened? oliver laurence that, my friends, is a surprise journalist. now joining me now is the former editor of conservative home, lord goodman, paul goodman and my panel of course, are dame andrea jenkyns, a key supporter of boris johnson when he was prime minister and also joe phillips. forgive me, the former press secretary to paddy ashdown, the lib dems. hi guys. well, thanks for coming on. coming on tonight, paul. what on earth happened today? >> my reaction was the same as yours when i saw that i swear like i did. i don't know. i looked at the figures and i thought that's been tweeted wrong. yes. those figures must be must be wrong. and then they came up a second time. the third and the fourth time. so i don't know. i mean, you are famously deaung know. i mean, you are famously dea

announcement by bob blackman, the 1922 chairman, at 3:30 pm.e 2 or 3 hours to do this exercise. you can do it in a blink of an eye. basically, i'm we're expecting robert jenrick to tick up slightly to around 3435 mps. most of the mps that supported mel stride in the last round of voting before the party conference, 16 of those votes, they are probably going to go towards jenrick and james cleverly, who should get a big jump cleverly, who should get a big jump in his popularity. he's around 21 mps supporting, so we're expecting, i think, tom tugendhat to drop out today and overnight a battle for second place between robert jenrick and kemi badenoch and then the final two, whoever they are , announced two, whoever they are, announced in just over 24 hours. time to go forward to the membership. so, as you say , those polling so, as you say, those polling numbers are disastrous for the labour party and they've happened without any actual meaningful real opposition from the leader of the opposition, because he basically hasn't been around that much

heard in the in the committee room 14 just now, when you played out that result being read out by bob blackmant 80 whitehall and i was in the room for that and that was the moment. but i can't think of a more dramatic moment in conservative party politics in conservative party politics in the past. whatever it is, eight years until this moment now, it means that the two surviving candidates, miss badenoch and mrjenrick, will duke it out on gb news on october. >> the 17th. in that exclusive head to head it now means, chris, that the leader of the party will be on the political right. the centrist candidate , right. the centrist candidate, mr cleverly. he's now bitten the dust. so what will that mean for the future direction of the party? what can we expect to see from them in terms of policy direction, and how might that land with a lot of tory mps out there in the shires who don't agree with their hard line on things like immigration and perhaps even leaving the echr . perhaps even leaving the echr. >> so there are some takeaways from this. martin. we are now dropping down a generation to a yo