Hello, my name's David Rumsman and this is Talking Politics.

We've waited a few days to see who might be running to replace Theresa May and also to see

what happened in the Euro election results.

And now I've got Helen here and we're going to try and work out what it means.

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Forward slash talking.

People are joining the Tory leadership race all the time.

There have been some epic tweets.

I don't know if you saw Jesse Norman's one yesterday, 30 tweets in which he was trying to decide whether he should run or not.

James Cleverly may be joining in, Kit to Malt House.

I don't think we can cover the runners and riders.

The European election results are very stark.

I think people will probably know the headlines. The Brexit party came first. The Liberal Democrats

came second. The Labour Party did really badly in lots of places and we'll come on to that.

And the Greens did well. So we're going to try in half an hour and sweep all that up into something.

Let's start with the Brexit party. So Helen, this is the bit you're going to have to talk me through this.

This is the bit I can't square. Two general assumptions that people have made about these results and what they mean for the Conservative Party, and particularly for the people who would like to be Prime Minister soon, those candidates have

got to somehow move in a more Brexit party direction. So they are embracing the possibility,

even in some cases the probability of a no-deal Brexit at the end of October. And secondly, the Conservative Party cannot face a general election

without having delivered Brexit.

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