there are enough people to the left of the conservative party, and on the left of the conservative partythe government, even though they are aware that will bring down the government. there are people on the left of the conservative party who will say, my political career is effectively over 110w political career is effectively over now anyway, and what is important to me is to stop an ideal brexit. people like dominic grieve, and he isn't alone. there are more than two of them, and there only needs to be two, with the parliamentary maths. you are a member of the conservative party, you are an entrepreneur, you run several companies. what impact will this have on the british economy, do you think? well, ifi am right, it will bring in a government led byjeremy corbyn and i don't know many people in business who think that's a good idea. all right, we shall move on. let's move onto the front page of the financial times. i wanted to discuss this, it is really interesting, what the us — china trade war means for vietnam. it has really positioned it as a place to be. vietnam is actually doing

and i suppose, jonathan, although it is conservative party members will be choosing the next party leaderader will become prime minister, which is why it is so important for these hustings to be broadcast in this way. it there is a huge amount of scrutiny for this process and as you say, the contest is to be conservative leader, whoever winds will become our next prime minister. but because it is a leadership election which is happening outside of the general election, it is a process which is wholly confined to the conservative party itself. but that said, the tv debates in these televised hustings as well, there will be huge public interest as well in the process. i'm sure the candidates will be keen to get their ideas and opinions across to the conservative party membership, the ones were going to vote for them and put them in the job but also to appeal to the public at large so that they feel they have a mandate for thejob of prime minister and artistic conservative party leader. in itfailure in it failure prevented many from reaching the terminal. putting some chaotic scenes in place

the conservative party said that these facebook groups are in no way affiliated to the conservative partyly. we understand that a dossier has been passed to conservative central office that includes at least 130 comments made on social media by people that the person who provided the dossier thinks our conservative party members or there is a suggestion that they might be, so those are the numbers we are talking about. which is going up for the last time there was a report about the numbers of complaints being passed on? the last dossier was about a hundred, so it's gone up by about a hundred, so it's gone up by about 30. i spoke to the person providing the information last night and he thinks it could rise easily 250. those are the numbers we are talking about. the conservatives have suspended people including those we spoke about earlier on, but at least a couple of dozen have been suspended as a result. boris johnson's campaign said there was no link between these independently run online groups and their campaign and allegations of this nature are taken seriously by the conservative p

nominations have just closed in the race to become the next leader of the conservative party. the candidates will be whittled down to the final two. at half past eight will be talking to conservative representatives around the country who are yet to decide which leadership candidate they will be supporting. this is the scene live in new york as the fire department are responding to that helicopter crash. a nurse has been rearrested by police regarding the deaths of babies at a neonatal unit. no more free tv licences for 3.5 million pensioners from next year, but the bbc says it will cover the cost for the purist. —— for the least well off. the race to become the next conservative leader and prime minister has begun. ten candidates. on thursday conservative mps will cast their votes. the candidates will then be whittled down further by tory mps in three more ballots on 18,19, by tory mps in three more ballots on 18, 19, and 20th ofjune. then when two candidates remain at the conservative party membership will finally get its sea. that is around 160,000 people. they will begin ca

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i think is what the conservative party wants.there is so much more to discuss. the tampa bay times is digesting the launch of donald trump's re— election campaign, in front of an audience of 20,000 people, his supporters, really, in orlando, florida. what do you make of what they are saying about his launch? well, somebody set it to me earlier, it felt like you go and see your favourite performer and you wa nt to your favourite performer and you want to see the greatest hits, and he brought out all the old songs, fa ke he brought out all the old songs, fake news, although a slight variation. lock her up. lock her up, yes, i'm not sure if he mentioned draining the swamp but he is in the process of doing that, building a wall, donald trump is a phenomenon in politics. he is a businessman who has clearly ta ken a in politics. he is a businessman who has clearly taken a business approach to politics. he said when he won the presidency that he wasn't going to stop campaigning, so whether this is a launch orjust another milestone in hi

i just want to pick up conservative party. thank you for that.ing them. disappointed obviously but almost sorrowful, mournful that he believes that a clear path at the conservative party could take to bring people in you to the centre ground has potentially been squandered. i think there is something in that. the conservative party effectively this evening i said to lib dems voters, labour voters, floating voters that we are not so concerned of how your views and your votes because rory was indeed the candidate that people like that were saying they could vote for, there was a criticism all the way through that he was a candidate the tories did not like what everyone else did but to wind elections you need to bring those people on board. it is a bit disappointing i think that we have turned our back on that by excluding him from this but ultimately i think he did not succeed in quite framing the choice on the right way and maybe it was a little bit too brutal on the other candidates as he said. sure. the suggestion that he has already written his

and the labor party because the conservatives are looking at bret's party say well what we did is stop them and the labor party's under enormous pressure from its own base to support the liberal democrat position and not leave the european union it's all so those 2 main parts of being dragged in opposite directions to each other and it makes things incredibly confusing and to go back to your original points about not wasting time and figuring out how to leave the european union or whatever else is going to do we know closer now than that we were when donald has made those remarks in the spring and as far as the leadership election for the the governing conservative party is concerned only a few conservative party members get to choose who become effectively partners next prime minister but out of the candidates appeal to the conservative members who choose the next leader. yeah if you go back to the brits it party again and its influence on all this in a way that matter that much that the party doesn't have a single policy a mani

on the programme, why is the bbc showing a debate for contenders in the conservative party leadershipe when most of us cannot vote for the candidate we like best? and what sort of negotiations with politicians with borisjohnson were involved in getting the programme off the ground ? first, the bbc has faced a barrage of protest this week following its decision to restrict free television licences for the over 75 to those who claim pension credit. the corporation has said maintaining the benefit universally would cost £750 million. but some viewers think abc news could pay a role in planning that financial gap. —— bbc news. david marshall asked, why do you go to the enormous expense of sending news p rese nte i’s to the enormous expense of sending news presenters abroad when you already have reporters based in these countries? televised debates between politicians have a tortured history, with broadcasters attempts to get or main party leaders to take part failing at the last two general elections. more recently at the end of last year, plans for a head—to—head between each may and jer

if there was a prospect, if we were nearly there, then i would take a bit longer because the conservative partyof business, the party of union and the party of hope. i would want to avoid the disruption of no deal. i do respectfully disagree with michael and jeremy on this because we have got to learn from our mistakes. one of the mistakes we have made so far is by having this flexible deadline. if you don't have a deadline you can't concentrate minds. there is only one door out of this and its parliament. i would say to all these people on the platform — take the shock of the european elections, let's get on with it, let's vote it through and let's get it done. we have run into that door three times already, rory. we have to have a different route out. we can't simply represent the same cold porridge for a fourth time. this is about all of our future but the past is never far away. but the worry i have about boris‘s position, we fought together on the leave campaign and hejoined me on that campaign so we both believe it in our heart, but my worry is that, boris, if we got to october 31 and we

vote, pointing out that our future prime minister is being chosenjust by this small group of conservative party mightappearto be party members. absolutely, and it might appear to be slightly undemocratic, and in many ways it is. but it's not as if the conservatives have changed the rules in the last ten minutes. people have a lwa ys in the last ten minutes. people have always known these weather rules. if you want to have a vote on who the leader of the conservative party is, become the leader of the conservative party. i struggle to get with this kind of outrage. we had this with gordon brown after he became prime minister in 2007, then it was a tory paper saying this is terrible and there should be a general election. i struggle with this because i feel like these are not new rules that we were unaware of. people will have known for a long time that theresa may was not going to last very long and there was going to be an election. so people could join the conservative party if they wanted to say on this. and it has happened many times before, it is notjust gordon brown and tony blair. john ma

there was a poll this morning that showed rory into second place amongst conservative party members. need a clear choice when it comes to the vote for party member is. rory is demonstrating he is the most forceful, articulate, courageous, is the most forceful, articulate, courageous, if you like, advocate of an alternative vision for the conservative party. so when i think the british people can trust as prime minister. and there is a big opportunity, i think now. what it has demonstrated is there is some momentum behind rory stewart, and i hope that we can build on that and will start to attract more mp5 who realise that rory can win this, can get to the final two, and he can attract support and has the support ofa attract support and has the support of a lot of members and the general public. but he got 19 votes out of 330, that is the truth. how will he persuade these fellow mps to back him? and his views on brexit, as we know, they do not chime with the tory party grassroots. rory will go out and argue the case of the party when the ship and the general public. accepting the hard

for the job of prime minister just conservative a mandate for the job of prime ministerjust conservative partyo tim montgomerie, political commentator and co—founder of the conservative home website. he's supporting boris johnson. thank you forjoining us. how do you think your man did?|j thank you forjoining us. how do you think your man did? i thought he was right to try and say that the private questions about his private life are not public business. i think we have had a lot of media attention on the unfortunate story that developed overnight, but what we do know about this incident is that the police visited his house at the established that both of the parties to the concern were safe and well. neither wanted to bring the police into the matter and i think that should be the end of it. i think all of us probably have had rows at times that we wouldn't want to be overheard by our neighbours. i understand why the neighbours called the police but both are safe, are well and we should draw a line on the matter and focus on the issues that largely starred in today's hustings. sorry to interje

and i think we saw tonight that unity is needed in the conservative party, boris has brought mpseuropean, jacob rees—mogg and mark francois at the other end. because they think they can influence him? no, because he is our unifier, his personality helps bring people together and that is important ina bring people together and that is important in a leader and a prime minister and it's one of the reasons i'm backing boris johnson minister and it's one of the reasons i'm backing borisjohnson because he will be the best, he is the best at unifying the conservative party which we need to do. some people think he is divisive, he had a question about his comments about women wearing veils, that they looked like letterboxes, his answer seem to be i had a distant relative who was muslim so that was not a great answer. now, he apologised for any offence caused and i will not come down some of the florid language she has used. it's offensive, not flowery. it was an electric moment when he talked about his great—grandfather, he talked about his muslim immigrant great—grandfather who then ca

and i suppose although it is conservative party member is choosing the next party leader, they will ofrime minister which is why it is so important for the testings to be broadcast in this way. yes and there is a huge amount of scrutiny on this process because although as you say, the contest is to be conservative leader and whoever wins will become our next prime minister. because it is a leadership election that is happening outside of a general election, it is a process which is a holy can to the conservative party itself. but that said with the tv debates and with these televised hustings as well, there will be a huge public interest of course in the process and i am sure candidates will be keen to get their ideas and opinions across to the conservative party membership and those who will vote for them and also more broadly to appeal to the public and electorate at large say they feel they have a mandate for the job of prime minister and not just conservative party readers. jonathan blake there. president trump says his administration plans to impose additional sanctions on iran, t

ithink at a conservative party sings in birmingham.nk we can have a listen. —— conservative party hustings. you are not going to make any comment at all and what happened la st any comment at all and what happened last night. i think that it's pretty obvious from the foregoing. 0k. last night. i think that it's pretty obvious from the foregoing. ok. i... i have sat where you start, i understand the responsibilities. i did answer the first question. 0k, let's move on. that was part of a lengthy exchange. i think the feeling in team johnson is he does not talk about his private life, he hasn't so far and he is not going to now. i wouldn't be surprised if that continues. he is not going to now. i wouldn't be surprised if that continuesm there any sign at all of those having an impact on thejohnson campaign? very hard to say in any concrete terms. at the hustings, got a glimpse in the clip, there were some in the audience who quite clearly did not want the question to be answered. they are either supporters of boris johnson be answered. th

i think conservative party members who are public spirited, that is why they belong to a political partyust a political party, they recognise they are not just voting for themselves, they have a responsibility to vote for people who do not have a vote this time. there will be a general election in due course. they will choose people who do not have a political party, people who have another political party, for their children, grandchildren, parents. they will ta ke grandchildren, parents. they will take all that into account and look at both of these candidates freshen decide who is best for britain. i do not think they will be bound by what people are said in pozo in the past. when you look at jeremy that way, it is very exciting for britain and the conservative party, and we know we are carrying out a duty for others. and i think the conservative party will take that really seriously and choose a series individual for a greatjob. choose a series individual for a great job. whoever wins this is a massive challenge of bringing the party back together, there has not been much unity aroun

because at the moment he has the most support within parliament that's important within his own conservative party there are 42 conservative m.p.'s who are backing him and he needs them to get through to the next round which is when the people the members of the conservative party will vote so he's one to watch out for and certainly michael gove but there are others as well this job that he's the home secretary and there is somebody who's quite interesting he's actually somebody who is proud to have voted for maine says bricks it must happen he's cool lurie's to it and he's taken his campaign to social media and seems to be the only candidate who's really gone out and about across the u.k. meeting normal people and trying to say to them there is no easy answer to bricks it but. trust me i am the person who is going to try to deliver it in the most sensible way possible any women's names that have come up yes there were 2 they would have both been in the cabinet this estimate they and andrea led some an entry let so many quit the cabinet a few weeks ago and she was clearly fairly well liked by 2 re

how many of the audience would be conservative party members, who as your own viewer pointed out, canuld it reflect the broader electorate? should we weight the audience in some way? that would have caused a contentious discussion between us and some of the candidates. in this example, we have a few days to go before the programme, but touch wood, simple format seems like it has served us well. some viewers, you'll be aware, say there has been a lot of focus on personality and past behaviour, how much will that feature in the debate and how much will it actually be that policy? our objective is this is a policy led discussion. we have not seen all the questions yet, we cannot tell whether they will be a huge volume of questions... but you choose the questions to be asked. yes, we will choose them on policy areas, there is so much policy to talk about. we have laid down one condition, so all questions have to be asked to all candidates, so any question about a previous record in taking drugs wouldn't be question that is allowed, it wouldn't be a legitimate question for a policy debate.

this yearfor of the conservative party who stood this year for election to the local council.th. philip, because you are a member of the conservative party, you are one of the few people who can actually vote on who our next prime minister will be so i wondered how much did the programme help you make up your mind? it didn't really add to my knowledge of them because perhaps when you know about them before, the programme seemed so when you know about them before, the programme seemed so awkward. it was sitting on bar stools as if they we re sitting on bar stools as if they were entering a pub quiz. no live audience. emily maitlis was to one side of the stage and i think she should have been in the middle, facing them, looking at each candidate equally. it was quite a strange set up. i wondered if it was fed on the candidates. you raise some interesting points. neville, what did you think? it's difficult to fathom what the answers where that the candidates were given because they didn't have enough time apart from being constantly interrupted by emily maitlis, particularly who

the conservative party a lwa ys matter.servative party always needs to be pro—business, pro—enterprise, and i think i have been winning that argument and more and more candidates are starting to say these things. that we also need to be open and attracting voters from the centre ground, voters who might be voting for other parties like thinking about voting for the labour party and lib dems. now the other candidates are also making those arguing. i feel i have other candidates are also making those arguing. ifeel i have been winning arguments, but it is also clear that where i have put myself forward as a candidate focused on the future, the party has understandably focused on the here and now and how we get through brexit in the next few months. so i have decided to withdraw from the contest. and i will be looking for how i can make those values sing and make sure that the party encapsulates the values that are so important. who are you going to endorse now? who are you going to back? i am talking to all of the candidates,

even within the conservative party boris johnson. he degree where he won't become leader of the party? he was so far ahead up to this point, after this police visit on friday. he was definitely the frontrunner, there is no doubt. as a non- betting man, if they want to place a bet, i'm was deals at the end of the process borisjohnson is deals at the end of the process boris johnson is going deals at the end of the process borisjohnson is going to come out ahead unless there is something else really made in the next few weeks, some of the scandal. a lot of people in the conservative party are saying he is the only person who can hold back nigel farage, the only person who can deliver brexit, which is what they really want... could he wina what they really want... could he win a general election with the majority? he is the one they see as having the character to win them a general election. you can argue as to whether those things are true but thatis to whether those things are true but that is how they can —— perceive it. as long as th

months was supposedly in charge of delivering bricks it he hopes he can appeal to those conservative m.p.'s and party members who are happy to leave the e.u. without to deal the list goes on but this is the man who most candidates want to see off nigel ferrante isn't even a conservative. but a bright party has won over many tour events is on friday he was in downing street with a letter demanding a c. to any future breaks at negotiations no tory hopeful will be keen to give him that but to secure the keys to this door it seems almost anything is possible. and that was of course alex forrest whiting reporting or she is a former british parliamentary correspondent and our very own in-house briggs it analyst good to have you here with us threesome a stepped out on a very eloquent tour. talks a little bit more about all these contenders is a crowded field vying to take over who's making a real impact well as we saw in that report boris johnson does seem to be the one to be to not is because at the moment he has the most support within parliament that's important within his own conservative party there ar

poles of conservative party members? they show that boris johnson is conservative party members?show that borisjohnson is well ahead but what they show consistently is the most important thing is delivering brexit on account of the can't deliver brexit is not going to win. in a contest between michael gove and boris johnson, the dynamics may have been different. michael gove could have positioned and built —— decision himself as someone on the leave bandwagon as soon as it started whereas boris johnson bandwagon as soon as it started whereas borisjohnson could have been presented as the fair weather exit year but it's a different situation againstjeremy hunt who supported remain and voted remained but could be accused of being another theresa may. borisjohnson could be said to be the more legitimate brexit candidate. in that case, take us to the telegraph. yet again, borisjohnson has written his wee kly again, borisjohnson has written his weekly telegraph column and said that he won't bottled exit and it's very clear that he is trying to push through this current scandal by confi

borisjohnson leads the race to be the next prime minister after today's conservative party ballot.onight he clashed with rivals over brexit in a live tv debate. two teenage neo—nazis, who encouraged an attack on prince harry for marrying a mixed—race woman, are jailed for terrorism offences. and more weather warnings as thunderstorms, torrential rain and flooding look set to batter parts of the uk again. and the united states says it will send an additional 1,000 troops to the middle east — as tensions build with iran after last week's attack on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are isabel hardman from spectator, conservative commetator tim montgomerie and faiza shaheen from the centre for labour and social studies. the gloves were off, and so was rory stewart's tie. was it getting hot in there, in that debate stuidio, between the candidates for the tory leadership and prime minister? some suggest there was a hell of a lot of hot air flying around, with emily maitlis the attendant fi

do you understand the point that charlie raised, that some will say they feel the conservative party oting for the party, not the country? no, that's not right at all. we are voting in the interests of the country, we are lucky to have two candidates with a great deal of experience, one having run the nhs and the other having run london. they are both very capable and we are really looking at who is the best for the topjob in are really looking at who is the best for the top job in the country. it isa best for the top job in the country. it is a huge privilege and we take it very seriously indeed. you have all been very clear that you want detail about what plans are. i think it would be churlish to pretend that pa rt it would be churlish to pretend that part of this is not about personality, and i suspect you will be looking for more signs, if you don't already know, about — alarm bells about either of them, the bits that you think people won't like all the polarising elements. you will be well aware that the headlines today are about boris johnson, well aware that the headlines toda

put my name forward as the next leader of the conservative party and speak from minister my will be standing for the leadership of my party and as the next prime minister i can confirm that i will be putting my name forward to people in this country that person to me there's only one candidate enough force in the form of farm sector i'll work with anybody as if i got it to achieve record of whether anything. also coming up it's 5 years since august it's a has c c was an auger rated as the president of egypt well today 60000 political opponents are behind bars and hundreds have been sentenced to death there is pessimism about the future there is fear of reprisal if you express your opinion the tensions appearance. the curfews have closed on british prime minister theresa may the embattled conservative leader formally quit but she stays on until a successor is picked and the race is on for the top job more than 10 candidates have publicly announced they want to replace her in downing street and any leader succeeding may will have to face brigs that the biggest issue confronting british politic

e d's to brussels while the conservative party sums of their worst national election result in the party's 200 year history and here in peterborough coming a very close 2nd in trying to send an m.p. to westminster losing by just under 700 votes as vanishingly small margin i think make no mistake and the other parties will now make no mistake the briggs's party has become and remains a significant feature new feature on the british political landscape britain's prime minister's reason may is officially stepping down as the leader of her conservative party she'll continue to serve as prime minister when the party chooses her successor 11 m.p.'s a competing in the race may announce her resignation 2 weeks ago after parliament voted. down a briggs and feel for the time let's go live now to london i was there as long as lee is in westminster so lawrence the e.u. told britain not to waste time when it wanted an extension to the brig's a deadline and yet here we are going to spend the next 6 weeks waiting for the conservatives to choose a new leader and therefore new prime minister. yeah and you

where prime minister is a man is stepping down as leader of the conservative party today but she will stay on as skeptical prime minister to the party alexa. her resignation 2 weeks ago has kicked off the resort of place as head of the party and the country 11 conservative lawmakers are vying to be the next prime minister we take a look at 3 of the favorites leading the race is barra sansa the former foreign minister has pledged to take the country out of the e.u. on october the 31st he says britain or. environment minister factories a maze of bricks and strategy and says he believes he can unite the tory party another top candidate is dominique robb who resigned drags it minister over to reason is. the departure deal with the. our correspondent big mass joins me now from london big nominations for leadership contenders are now open so what happens now what is the process to elect a new leader. it's actually a very intricate process and rita it's up to m.p.'s 2 members of parliament conservative members of parliament to come up with a shortlist of 2 m.p.'s and that shortlist then goes

this is the way the conservative party is with his views.ertainly there was a fight and all talking over each other and difficult to make time —— as of the at times. did not really come away thinking that anybody stood out nor did you get any really clear a nswers. stood out nor did you get any really clear answers. but maybe the format of the show with that many will be difficult to get that anyway. but certainly there was a fight. was it the cacophonous sense of a bun fight as he metro suggested an boris johnson since it might be the case a few days ago that materialised?m the sense, it vindicates the use of the sense, it vindicates the use of the schism that borisjohnson has had over these debate formats. he did not take part in the debate on sunday but did take part and i because of the media pressure on him to be scrutinised. and i think we did not used to have debates as a big part of the british political tradition. 0urtradition big part of the british political tradition. 0ur tradition has much more been set with interviews like bria

the two conservative leadership contenders have faced questions and party members this afternoon in the first of the series across the country. borisjohnson jeremy hunt were in birmingham, each trying to convince conservative activists that they are the best candidate to replace theresa may as prime minister. boris johnson sidestepped questions about an incident in which police are called to reports at the flat that he shares with his girlfriend, let's have a listen to what he had to say. ido have a listen to what he had to say. i do not think they wanted to hear about that kind of thing, listen, listen. forgive me. ithink about that kind of thing, listen, listen. forgive me. i think what they want to hear and what they want to hear is what my plans are for the country and for our party. i know you will have to come back and i salute your ability as a journalist but under the set obligation of wanting to get my message across, to oui’ wanting to get my message across, to our party. you have just taken up a minute that told us absolutely nothing. if the police... if the police... walk in

the conservative party needs a committed brexiteer that will win back the confidence of people falling can beat jeremy corbyn on the centre ground. that is boris. supporters may think borisjohnson is a winner but what about in a general election? polling guru, sirjohn curtis, has been predicting election results for over 30 years. he says it is a gamble. i think what one needs to be aware of is that borisjohnson can do something for the conservative party which is to bring in leave voters he will not have any control over where remain voters leave their vote. he has to hope the remain vote remains divided, but if it falls behind another party the conservatives will have a more substantial challenge and the outcome of that battle does not lie within his control. jeremy hunt's chances are no more certain. at the end of the day, there is no evidence that jeremy hunt can appeal to those who voted leave and voted for the brexit party, but equally it's not obvious he can bring into the party those who voted remain so at the end jeremy hunt is not at a disadvantage, he just isn't going to bri

before our main event, let's hear from the chairman of the conservative party, brandon lewis. rk that is so important to our country and to our party, not just with the mayoral elections next year, with so many key seats for us it seems fitting we start our hustings here in birmingham. i also wa nt to hustings here in birmingham. i also want to thank the 1922 committee, our colleagues in parliament who had run such a proficient process in the last few weeks that has led to us having two great candidates to consider in the weeks ahead. but not just as your chairman but has a long—standing party member i appreciate the importance for all of us appreciate the importance for all of us to have the chance over the next few weeks to hear from our candidates and to cast our votes for the next leader of our party, in this solemn absolute understood knowledge that we are selecting the next prime minister of the uk. that's why it is so important and why i'm so pleased we can hold these hustings over the next few weeks in every region and nation of the uk so every region and nation of the

the challenge for the conservative party is to demonstrate it is still conservative, it is not on englishparty, that it will save the union of the united kingdom and it still believes in free trade and a good relationship with business and that it is genuine about one nation policies, which if you load tax proposals for the rich, is not a good way of demonstrating that. so i think there is all to play for. i am sure that alan duncan was right in saying the people who are likely to go through our boris johnson, jeremy hunt and perhaps michael gove. i do not think that would be too of rory stewart who has talked the greatest saints during this campaign. even though michael gove is the most competent of the candidates, because not necessarily of the cocaine business, it will be interesting to hear mrjohnson a nswer interesting to hear mrjohnson answer questions about his past, not necessarily because of that but because of his past views on the good friday agreement and his tendency in the past to be a new, in foreign policy. he is a very competent man. jeremy hunt is a competent man. jeremy

that is a tul conservative party.hey can quiz all the candidates and decide that, they have a big debate on monday and the votes start on tuesday and wednesday and thursday and they hope to get the two candidates by this time next week. by candidates by this time next week. by this time next week, i think would be june by this time next week, i think would bejune 20th, we should know who the final two are. that's right. chosen by mps. and then they begin a campaign in the country in which conservative members get to vote between these two? yes there is 160,000 tory members. more than thought. i thought it was 120,000. 36,000 new people. thought. i thought it was 120,000. 36,000 new peoplelj thought. i thought it was 120,000. 36,000 new people. i thought the new people couldn't come in at the last minute. that is not clear. if you have been a memberfor more minute. that is not clear. if you have been a member for more than three month and over 16 you can vote. there is 16 hustings around the country and hopefully we wi

let's speak now to a couple more conservative party members. h a boat in the leadership contest. she is appointing boris johnson boat in the leadership contest. she is appointing borisjohnson like many others. we suspectjohnny was appointing michael gove but he is now undecided in a london newsroom. i wonder if i could start with you, what is the factor that will most the timing will you give your vote to? first, i was supporting michael gove, i'm very disappointed he did not make the final two, i am now in a position where i'm getting in the onion —— undecided between boris johnson and jeremy hunt, what i'm looking for is the person who little sets out a plan of how they are going to achieve brexit and their preferred brexit outcome and how they would reach out to voters who weren't necessarily traditionally conservative and particularly those who may be feeling a little bit of animosity towards us at the moment. can your man, borisjohnson actually unite the party? because he is pretty divisive. can you hear me? yes i can, sorry. can boris john

s ruling conservative party is voting in a 2nd round to decide who will replace theresa may as prime minister the winner will become party leader and prime minister and face the task of leading britain's withdrawal from the european union those are the headlines talk to al-jazeera is next stay with us. you're seeing. albania's overarching national goal is to join the european union prime minister doesn't think the country is ready for membership partly because its political institutions are underdeveloped that has been on display in the past week as political parties have disagreed on when to hold local elections nationwide they were scheduled for june 30th the opposition democratic party now wants that date pushed back and hasn't fielded mayoral candidates the ruling socialists of roma want to proceed regardless with the candidates they've registered the deadlock has added to skepticism in the european union about whether albania is ready to join today on talk to al-jazeera.

party. is ahead of john this conservatives it has emerged as the number one party in the nation if elections were held on sunday this would be the outcome the greens would come in 1st with 26 percent. of conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc for with to 2nd place the 25 percent and coming in the right wing populist if tea at 13 percent another jolt america schoolish and bought knows the center left social democrats dropped to 4th place with only 12 percent the market friendly f.t.p. would get 8 percent and the fall lift left body 7 percent. so what do those results mean a senior political correspondent hans brandt is with me welcome hans surprising obvious results so we used to thinking off the green party at one point as a fringe as a nice body but now it's number one in the polls it has for a long time been a single issue party environmental issues that's the basis on which it was founded as the name indicates what's really to surprising about this is it coming in in 1st place in other words what's more surprising than the increase in support for the greens is a decrease in support for the conse

e d's to brussels while the conservative party some of their worst national election result in the party's 200 year history and here in peterborough coming a very close 2nd in trying to send an m.p. to westminster losing by just under 700 votes vanishingly small margin i think make no mistake and the other parties will now make no mistake the breaks of party has become and remains a significant feature new feature on the british political landscape britain's prime minister to resign may is officially stepping down as leader of governing conservative party she'll continue to serve as prime minister though on the party chooses her successor 11 m.p.'s are competing in the race may announced her resignation 2 weeks ago after parliament voted down her breaks a deal for a 3rd time meanwhile judges of britain's high costs are thrown out and attempts to prosecute politician boris johnson for allegedly lying about brags this johnson is the front runner to succeed. prime minister may. is to succeed to resume as prime minister let's go live to westminster zeros lawrence lee is there before we talk ab

if there was a prospect, if we were nearly there, then i would take a bit longer because the conservative partyrty of business, the party of union and the party of hope. i would want to avoid the disruption of no deal. i do respectfully disagree with michael and jeremy on this because we have got to learn from our mistakes. one of the mistakes we have made so far is by having this flexible deadline. if you don't have a deadline you can't concentrate minds. there is only one door out of this and its parliament. i would say to all these people on the platform — take the shock of the european elections, let's get on with it, let's vote it through and let's get it done. we have run into that door three times already, rory. we have to have a different route out. we can't simply represent the same cold porridge for a fourth time. this is about all of our future but the past is never far away. but the worry i have about boris's position, we fought together on the leave campaign and hejoined me on that campaign so we both believe it in our heart, but my worry is that, boris, if we got to october 31 and

it's to britain now where prime minister theresa may is stepping down as leader of the conservative party today resignation 2 weeks ago kicked off the race to replace her as head of the party and of the country 11 conservative lawmakers are vying to be the next prime minister let's have a look now at 3 of the favorites leading the race as boris johnson has the former foreign minister and the house to take the country out of the e.u. on october 31st quote deal or no deal on bret's. foreign minister michael gove has backed recent days but strategy says he believes he can unite the tories another top candidate dominic robb who resigned as minister of tourism is deal rob wants to renegotiate the department deal with the you. let's go straight to london now bagot maass our correspondent there is covering this morning's you better get what happens next and how will the next conservative party leader and prime minister be chosen. well brian it's a very intricate process festival is the conservative party m.p.'s in parliament who are deciding on a shortlist of 2 candidates at the moment all these

it or leave it basis so generally political parties are losing deep rooted loyalty for the conservative party it always traded on being a party of stability that you could trust that in a crisis well that particular brand has been pretty well contaminated and the brand it has been contaminated in other ways for reasons well documented big bold times and nasty party and nasty divided party and the president on tax does not have a future in my view mr johnson is going to have to pull off a miracle and as i say i think he's probably the last of these candidates have a chance of bringing the party back together again so you may win votes for the party but he won't win a happy feature of this party all right and john very quickly if you would just take a series as some of the other candidates because it is important to mention that there are 6 we mentioned partial to dominant rob what about michael kay is the environment secretary who was seen is a very firm breasts a tear isn't he he was seen as somebody could really stand up not only to jeremy cool ben but also to the leaders of europe what's ha

he was suggesting that a path for the conservative party to try and occupy the centre ground of britishen squandered perhaps. the problem he has got is that appealing to people beyond the tory party is one thing and i am sure most people in the party think thatis sure most people in the party think that is a good thing but that is not how this contest works. this works by getting the support of your fellow m ps by getting the support of your fellow mps first and then the grass roots members of the conservative party, so it is a very different constituency. that is the problem i think he ran up against. supporters are people like borisjohnson would say he is a so called one nation conservative as well and can unify and bring together, he is socially liberal and his views are brexiter different but they feel he can do that. he clearly knows his fellow mps were not ready to hear that message. there was good news for sajid javid and his team. i have stayed in the race and they are pretty optimistic because they think a lot of rory stewart's backers could go to him in the round tomorrow and

for the conservative party and the conservative party certainly cannot tolerate the idea of going tome soon, at least until rexford has been delivered and perhaps the brexit party can be put back into its box. confirmation here that the brexit party is afraid. liberal democrats and the greens not doing anything as well as they did in the european election and a reminder to them that when we get to the squeeze, if you are indeed not looking like a likely winner then you are always going to be a risk of seeing your vote fully away. although liberal democrats stronger thanif although liberal democrats stronger than if the 3% 2 years ago. although liberal democrats stronger than if the 396 2 years ago. let's look again at the figures. the results of the peterborough by—election of june 2019. results of the peterborough by—election ofjune 2019. labour ahead. brexit in 2nd place. conservatives, who were used to being 1st or 2nd in this constituency now in 3rd place. liberal democrats, green party, and ukip down of that. even if ukip had not existed in all of their votes had gone to the bre

you said you we re conservative party. we do have the october to 31st deadline. you say you want this sorted. would you be prepared to see a no—deal brexit in order to get this done? is it an absolute deadline for you ? order to get this done? is it an absolute deadline for you?” order to get this done? is it an absolute deadline for you? i think i have some frustration with parliament and politicians, to be honest. there is clearly no majority to do something. parliament has to decide what it wants to do to resolve this. i voted to remain in the referendum campaign, but i am now off the view that we need to, one, respect the results, which is particularly important for democracy, you can't go to the people over something and not employ meant it, and we can't keep moving the goalposts. i don't want that to happen. ultimately, we need to be able to talk about something on brexit, and to do it in a way that will have the least impact on the economy, on communities across the country. i think what sajid did last night was say

and may be no conservative party.ection are not different things, they are the same. and the person most likely to do that is someone who can negotiate a deal that will pass through parliament. as an entrepreneur and a cabinet minister who has spent his whole life doing in negotiations, i am that person. but before i explain how we need to go forward, let me pay tribute to theresa may and the unflinching sense of duty she has shown as prime minister. history will be more generous to her than the newspapers today because alongside her setbacks in parliament, it will also record her extraordinary dedication to party and country alongside her wholehearted commitment to delivering the referendum result. when we leave the european union, her role in shaping our departure, not least the priorities that attached to the control of our borders, will bejudged both significant and honourable and i thank herfor significant and honourable and i thank her for her service to our country. applause i‘ve been a cabinet ministerfor nine

so, she stands down as conservative party leader this friday. so, the day that donald trump gets back to washington, she stops being conservative party leader. she is caretaker prime minister. then a process by which two names go forward for the conservative party membership to vote on. eventually it will be widdled down to two and then a straight choice between those two candidates and one of them becomes the prime minister. now, the question is, what happens then over brexit? here is the real conundrum. in participaliament no support hard brexit but conservative voters who want to vote want a hard brexit. they lose this parliament in which case there is a general election that will be the result or do they defy and betray the conservative party membership? that is is the conundrum that every one of the candidates who wants to succeed theresa may will have to deal with. >> it should be noted that this is against the backdrop, john, of those eu elections in which nigel farage's party, the brexi brexiters saw tremendous gain and perhaps no brexit