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Ken Clarke, the Tory grandee, has come out strongly against Michael Gove. The pro-EU Clarke told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

Michael Gove would do us all a favour if he were to stand down now and speed up the process … all the serious candidates need to set out carefully how we would leave the EU without causing serious damage to the economy. That is the big serious question obscured by the bizarre manoeuvrings of Michael Gove.”

Clarke did not go so far as to endorse Theresa May – or any of the five candidates – but said she was “certainly in the right class of contenders”.

My colleague Jessica Elgot is now taking over.