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Tory leadership race: Who is backing who?

The race to be the next Tory leader is underway. Conservative Party members will decide between Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom after Michael Gove was knocked out in the second round of voting. But which Conservative MPs are backing who?

Theresa May (160):

Michael Fallon
Patrick McLoughlin
Chris Grayling
Nicholas Soames
Guto Bebb
Alan Mak
Gavin Williamson
George Hollingbery
James Brokenshire
Michael Ellis








Julian Smith
Mike Penning
Mel Stride
John Howell
Sarah Wollaston
Justine Greening
Alan Duncan
Brandon Lewis
Margot James
Phillip Lee








Paul Beresford
Steve Barclay
James Cartlidge
Flick Drummond
Simon Kirby
Alec Shelbrooke
Dominic Grieve
Julian Knight
Chris Philp
Sam Gyimah








David Mundell
Nicola Blackwood
Maria Miller
Therese Coffey
Karen Bradley
David Mackintosh
Mark Prisk
Damian Collins
Kevin Hollinrake
Heidi Allen








Mike Freer
Mark Pritchard
Jeremy Hunt
Craig Whittaker
Antoinette Sandbach
Kwasi Kwarteng
Caroline Spelman
Caroline Ansell
Ben Howlett
Nusrat Ghani








David Jones
Claire Perry
Andrew Stephenson
Chris White
Mark Garnier
Robert Buckland
Tobias Ellwood
Andrew Percy
Amber Rudd
Mark Spencer








Tracey Crouch
Nadhim Zahawi
Matthew Hancock
Harriet Baldwin
Stuart Andrew
Lucy Allan
Andrew Griffiths
Rehman Christi
Richard Benyon
Mims Davies








Kris Hopkins
Eric Pickles
Alok Sharma
Anna Soubry
Stephen Phillips
Steve Brine
Neil Carmichael
Richard Graham
Will Quince
Mark Lancaster








Sarah Newton
Robin Walker
Nigel Huddlestone
Peter Aldous
Edward Argar
Helen Grant
Oliver Heald
Stephen Metcalfe
Caroline Nokes
Damian Hinds








Stephen Hammond
Liz Truss
Jesse Norman
Philip Hammond
Alex Chalk
Byron Davies
James Cleverly
Guy Opperman
David Rutley
Rob Wilson








David Davis
Greg Clark
Jo Johnson
Greg Hands
James Berry
Andrew Bingham
Jonathan Djanogly
Simon Burns
Caroline Dinenage
Jane Ellison








Graham Evans
Kevin Foster
Edward Garnier
Roger Gale
Damian Green
Ben Gummer
Robert Halfon
Richard Harrington
Alan Haselhurst
Peter Heaton-Jones








Nick Hurd
Andrew Jones
Marcus Jones
Jason McCartney
Wendy Morton
Victoria Prentis
Grant Shapps
Henry Smith
Graham Stuart
Hugo Swire








Maggie Throup
Kelly Tolhurst
David Gauke
Vicky Atkins
Kit Malthouse
Richard Fuller
Jo Churchill
Oliver Colvile
Charlie Elphicke
Liam Fox








Stephen Crabb
Sajid Javid
Chloe Smith
Chris Skidmore
Jeremy Wright
David Morris
Andrew Selous
Simon Hoare
Mark Pawsey
Mike Wood








Crispin Blunt
Priti Patel
Ed Vaizey
Michael Fabricant
Nicky Morgan
Christopher Pincher
Nick Gibb
Daniel Kawczynski
Bob Neill
Anne-Marie Trevelyan








Andrea Leadsom (47):

Tim Loughton
William Wragg
Tom Pursglove
Penny Mordaunt
James Morris
Michael Tomlinson
Chris Green
Chris Heaton-Harris
David Burrowes
Steven Baker








Martin Vickers
Julian Lewis
Julian Brazier
Anne Marie Morris
Neil Parish
Owen Paterson
Bernard Jenkin
Iain Duncan Smith
Sheryll Murray
Bob Stewart








James Duddridge
Bill Cash
John Baron
Stewart Jackson
Peter Lilley
Karen Lumley
John Redwood
Andrew Rosindell
James Gray
Theresa Villiers








Andrew Bridgen
Nadine Dorries
Gordon Henderson
Boris Johnson
Charlotte Leslie
Craig Tracey
David Mowat
Andrew Murrison
Daniel Poulter
Philip Davies








Laurence Robertson
Stephen McPartland
Edward Leigh
David Nuttall
Maria Caulfield
Steve Double
Desmond Swayne





Tory MPs who were backing Michael Gove:

Nick Boles
Bill Wiggin
Dominic Raab
Henry Bellingham
John Whittingdale
John Hayes
Suella Fernandes
Adam Afriyie
Shailesh Vara
Andrea Jenkyns








Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jack Lopresti
Conor Burns
Alberto Costa
George Eustice
Andrew Mitchell
Angela Watkinson






Tory MPs who were backing Stephen Crabb:

Edward Timpson
John Glen
Julian Sturdy
Craig Williams
Johnny Mercer
Alun Cairns
Luke Hall
Gary...






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