Follow live updates on the Tory leadership contest and the latest recriminations from the European elections
Welcome to Politics Live as the race to become the next prime minister intensifies and recriminations from the European Parliamentary elections continue. The foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has put himself at odds with many hard Brexit candidates in the race by warning that pursuing a no-deal exit from the EU would be committing “political suicide”.
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