Conservative leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has announced she is pulling out of the race to replace David Cameron as prime minister. The energy minister has paved the way for Home Secretary Theresa May, as the only remaining candidate, to become Tory leader and Prime Minister - and she is expected to make a statement at 5pm today. Mrs Leadsom said: "The best interests of our country inspired me to stand for the leadership. I believe that in leaving the EU a bright future awaits, where all our people can share in a new prosperity, freedom and democracy... Theresa May learned that she was to become Prime Minister in a side room in an unprepossessing venue a stone’s throw from the International Conference Centre in central Birmingham. Normally the nearest the “IET Events and Weddings venue” gets to political history is when it hosts fringe meetings organised by right wing thinktanks when the Conservative party conference is being held at the nearby ICC. The Home Secretary had just given a 20 minute speech to launch what she thought would be the beginning of a nine week Conservative leadership campaign in which she had made a bold claim to orientate her premiership around the needs and interests of blue collar Tories.
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