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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oskred Manson and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and James Heel.

So it's been a busy day in Westminster today. We've had the vote on

the Winter Fuel Allowance, another round of voting in the Tory leadership contest, not

to mention the sale of a certain weekly politics magazine.

But we should probably start with the Tory leadership contest

where Mel Stride is the latest person to be eliminated

from the running.

Katie, can you take us through it? Yes, so as you say Mel Stride is out. When it comes to the

numbers, Robert Genrick was in the lead again on 33 MP Backers, Kemi Bainock in second place on 28 MP Backers, James Cleverly was on 21, tied with Tom Tooker

on 21, and Mel Stry was in fifth place with 16 so he was knocked out.

Now Mel Stride held firm on the number of MPs he had from the

last round as we have said previously quite a loyal 2010 largely male bunch

behind him but he has not been able to do it. I do think it was always broadly the case that

Priti Patel and Mel strides him the most likely not to make the final fall, so there isn't a huge level surprise. I think as we spoke about

previous on the podcast, Tom Tuggenhir had a really shaky first knockout round

because he was only one MP ahead of Mel Stride and James cleverly looked at the time quite

significantly further ahead they're of course disclaimer small number of MPs in the

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