with me are dawn foster, columnist at the guardian and lucy fisher, defence correspondent at the timesdy in. the metro suggests that borisjohnson is on the verge of becoming prime minister after he beat his rivals in the first round of tory leadership votes today. the ft also leads on borisjohnson‘s victory claiming he has won support from across the tory brexit divide, polling more votes than the next three contenders combined. the daily telegraph reports on comments from borisjohnson‘s supporters who have called on "vanity candidates" to drop out of the tory leadership race to speed up the process of selecting the next prime minister. one foot in number ten is the headline from the daily mail that says borisjohnson‘s rivals are now scrambling together to sabotage his coronation. the times claims borisjohnson is under ‘intense pressure‘ to debate with his rivals for the tory leadership on television after all the other candidates agreed to take part. the guardian pictures the tanker front altair on fire in the gulf of oman today — the united states has blamed iran for the suspected as

guardian columnist dawn foster and joe twine.any of the front pages are with you and they are dominated once again by the tory leadership race. the daily mail reporting that wasjohnson race. the daily mail reporting that was johnson and his race. the daily mail reporting that wasjohnson and his girlfriend, carrie simmons, have fled their south london home. the son claims that boris johnson and south london home. the son claims that borisjohnson and his partner have been involved in four explosive i’ows have been involved in four explosive rows in six weeks. the mirror, friends of boris johnson rows in six weeks. the mirror, friends of borisjohnson say he wa nts to friends of borisjohnson say he wants to leave his girlfriend to go back to his wife. jeremy hunt says, his conservative leadership bible has questions to answer about the i’ow. has questions to answer about the row. the metro says that mr hunt says mrjohnson must be prepared to confront criticism if he wants to become prime minister. the i says boris johnson's supporter

with me are the guardian columnist dawn foster and the director of the polling company, deltapoll, joeeadership hopeful jeremy hunt has added to presure on fellow candidate boris johnson to answer questions about a row jeremy hunt says his conservative leadership rival has questions to a nswer leadership rival has questions to answer about the row. mrjohnson must be prepared to confront criticism if he was to become prime minister, says demi hunt. the guardian also leads withjeremy hunt's comments. johnson is a coward, says hunt. the times leads... with the express is saying that supporters have insisted that the incident was a private matter. meanwhile, in his weekly telegraph column, boris johnson meanwhile, in his weekly telegraph column, borisjohnson reaffirmed his commitment that the uk can come a must and will leave the eu only 31st of october. we also see pictures of a jubilant andy murray after double success a jubilant andy murray after double success at queens tennis tournament. let's dip into at least some of those stories. at dawn, take us to the metro. does this sum up the

with me are guardian columnist, dawn foster and defence correspondent at the times, lucy fisher.row's front pages are already in. the metro suggests that borisjohnson is on the verge of becoming prime minister after he beat his rivals in the first round of tory leadership votes today. the ft also leads on borisjohnson‘s victory claiming he has won support from across the tory brexit divide. the daily telegraph reports on comments from borisjohnson‘s supporters who have called on "vanity candidates" to drop out of the race to speed up the process of selecting the next prime minister. 0ne foot in number 10 is the headline from the daily mail that says boris johnson's rivals are now scrambling together to sabotage his coronation. the times claims borisjohnson is under ‘intense pressure‘ to debate his rivals on television after all the other candidates agreed to take part. the paper also has the news that former labour and change uk mp chuku umunna has joined the lib dems. the guardian pictures the tanker ‘front altair‘ on fire in the gulf of oman today — the united states has blamed

and at 11.30, we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers dawn foster and lucyisher — stay with us for that. good evening. boris johnson has overwhelmingly won the first round of votes to become the next conservative leader — and prime minister. the former foreign secretary now seems almost certain to make it into the final two — after picking up the support of 114 of his conservative colleagues. 10 candidates were in the running. borisjohnson was way out in front — followed byjeremy hunt and michael gove. three candidates — andrea leadsom, mark harper and esther mcvey — didn't get enough support and were eliminated from the race, leaving seven mps to face more votes next week. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. who was it to be? mps voting behind the gates of the commons. i shall be voting for boris. i will be voting for boris. borisjohnson. the person who might beat boris is boris himself. get used to seeing this room where the tory committee announces results. jeremy hunt, a3. .. and by a clear margin... borisjohnson, 114. murmurs of surprise at th

and 11:30pm this evening in the papers our guests joining me tonight are the guardian columnist dawn foster polling company, deltapoll, joe twyman. a government minister has been in iran, calling for an urgent de—escalation of current tensions, after the us blamed iran for attacks on two oil tankers. reports in the american media say that the us launched a cyber attack on iranian weapons systems on thursday and that it disabled systems controlling rocket and missile launchers. our washington correspondent chris buckler reports. having backed away from military strikes, america is trying to show it is not afraid of conflict with iran. officials say they launch cyber attacks which they claim disabled iranian systems controlling rockets and missile launchers. exactly the kind of hardware responsible for shooting down an american drone over the gulf. with tehran showing off the wreckage and president trump threatening iran with a obliteration if this ends up in confrontation, the international community is increasingly worried. everybody was —— mesquite nerves of steel. the world cannot perform

discuss where the campaign lies ahead of tomorrow's crucial first vote is the guardian columnist dawn fosters jason groves, political editor at the daily mail. thank you very much forjoining us. i thank you very much forjoining us. ,we thank you very much forjoining us. , we have been gradually working our way to the candidates we heard from borisjohnson way to the candidates we heard from boris johnson today and way to the candidates we heard from borisjohnson today and sajid way to the candidates we heard from boris johnson today and sajid javid and what did you think of them?|j think and what did you think of them?” think borisjohnson was extraordinarily cage like, we know he likes to pay up the image of the troublesome rogue, he plans very clearly what is going to say and it is very clear that he has a lot of backers who have come together to make a very slick media strategy for him and that involves reining in his outspoken behaviour. he did not say very much in his speech and when he came to questions, he only took six from journalists and it is his race to lose, so the idea is to get

covered in tomorrow's front pages, at 10:1i0pm and ii 30 pm, our guests the guardian columnist and dawn fosterucy fisher, defence correspondent at the times. in the past hour the united states has blamed iran for the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman, one of the well‘s busiest oil shipping routes. the us secretary of state mike pompeo said that assessment was based on intelligence and the kind of weapons used. the us has accused iran of carrying out similar attacks last month. news of the blasts sparked a rise in oil prices. james robbins reports. an oil tanker ablaze in the gulf of oman this morning. its owners say the fire was the result of an explosion as yet unexplained. the video was filmed by the iranian navy. iran says its forces rescued all crewmembers from this norwegian owned tanker, and this second vessel, which was also hit by an explosion at much the same time. the united states with its carrier abraham lincoln in the area, already suspects iran of being behind today's events, and the damage to four tankers last month, but the iranians deny it, and suggest someone els