Johnson won more votes than Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab combined.
Boris Johnson is all but guaranteed to make the final two of the Conservative leadership contest after securing a stunning 114 votes in the first round of MPs’ votes.
Gove performed considerably worse than expected in the first round. Two weeks ago he was seen as the candidate most likely to come second, but he managed to secure around a third of the votes votes won by Johnson and is now third behind Hunt. Hunt is the favourite to join Johnson on the ballot. Speaking at his launch, Gove make a joke about Johnson “pulling out”, widely construed as a reference to his private life. “It was undignified and hardly unifying,” one MP told BuzzFeed News.
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