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Masterton begged to back Boris after he votes for successive losing candidates

Twitter users have issued a plea to Paul Masterton to back Boris Johnson in the final round of votes today after he voted for successive losing candidates.

The Tory MP for East Renfrewshire was one of 17 people to give their support to Matt Hancock in the first round of votes, before backing Rory Stewart in the next two rounds.

In the fourth ballot he supported Sajid Javid who was eliminated today.

The Home Secretary received just 34 votes today, leaving Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson to battle it out to make the membership vote.

Johnson is widely expected to win the contest, but several people have begged Masterton to back him in the next round in the off chance that his bad luck continues.

The final ballot will take place later today with results expected at 18:00.

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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