Tory leadership race: Stewart out as Johnson extends lead

Rory Stewart has been ousted from the Conservative leadership contest after losing 10 votes from Conservative MPs since the last round of voting and being leapfrogged by Sajid Javid who clung on to stay in the race.The frontrunner, Boris Johnson, substantially increased his tally to 143 votes, almost three times the number of his closest rivals Jeremy Hunt (54) and Michael Gove (51).Stewart, who ran an insurgent campaign buoyed by support on social media, tweeted that he was “so moved and