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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy U. and I'm joined by James Hill and Paul Goodman.

So James in the last few hours we have had a further round of the Tory leadership contest and it's narrowed it down to the final three candidates.

Tell us what happened.

Yep, so as expected Tom Tuggen out was knocked out but I think the real surprise from this penultimate round of MPs voting today was how well James Cleverly did.

James Cleverly came top with 39 votes of the 120 that were cast.

That puts him in poll position. it is a 15% swing as he was on 21

before he's got 18 more MPs now he's on 39 so James Levian first then Robert Jemrick on 31 in second,

slipping.

Previously was on 33, so he's dropped two MPs.

And then finally in third, Kimmy Bignoch,

who has 30 MPs, picked up two more from previously, and Tom Tuggen Hat was on 21 last time,

is on 20 this time, being knocked out, so that follows Malstride being knocked out a month ago.

So there we have it, which are the top three, which is which is James Cleverley who currently has the biggest

winning margin of any ballot thus far with a margin of eight then followed by Badenong and

generally with one vote between them both and I think the big question this answer then is of course

was who's going to get knocked out on the Tory left and the Tory right. Clearly James cleverly has

convincingly trounced Tom Tugginat and I think the most reason talking to MPs was they were looking at the kind of

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