Britain | The race to be prime minister

And then there were two

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt progress to the final stage of the Tory leadership contest

By BAGEHOT

AFTER TWO days of voting Tory MPs have chosen two of their colleagues to go through to the next stage of the leadership election: a run-off when the party’s 160,000 members will choose the winner. They are Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary. Mr Johnson got more than half the votes with 160. Mr Hunt just pipped Michael Gove, the environment secretary, with 77 votes to 75.

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