I have today decided that the UK will take a step that is extremely unusual and exercise diplomatic protection.

Jeremy Hunt

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I have decided that now is not the right time for me to run for the leadership - though I remain completely committed to ensuring we secure our position as a great trading nation with sensible controls on migration. I believe that Theresa May has the strength, judgment and values to deliver those things.

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Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime ministership since the Suez Crisis, possibly since the Second World War.

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She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.

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All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests. I can't do anything that requires the BBC to pay certain people certain amounts.

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People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.

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I think the person who has the experience, the depth and the values to take us forward is Theresa May who I think will be absolutely outstanding.

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If Boris wins, which is what the polls are saying, at the moment, and he comes back with a majority, that British government will be much less willing to compromise.

The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contraventio... by Jeremy Hunt

The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law.

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These seizures are unacceptable, it is essential that freedom of navigation is maintained and that all ships can move safely and freely in the region.

Also spoke to @FabianPicardo who is doing an excellent job co-ordinating issue and shares UK perspective on the way forward.

Because Boris never answers the questions, we have absolutely no idea what his premiership would be like.

Let me clear what I said. I said that I condemned, and we as the United Kingdom, condemn all violence and that people who supported the pro-democracy demonstrators would have been very dismayed by the scenes they saw.

We will stand by that agreement and we expect China to do the same, the fundamental freedoms of Hong Kong are what have made it such a stunning success since 1997 and indeed before 1997 - anything that contradicted the letter or spirit of the basic law that preserves them should not happen.

I today urge the Hong Kong ... government to establish a robust, independent investigation into the violent scenes that we saw.

The outcome of that investigation will inform our assessment of future export license applications to the Hong Kong police.

I think there is a deal that can unite all wings of the Conservative party and our friends in the DUP, but it's got to be different to Theresa May's deal.

When I talk to European leaders this is do-able, one of the reasons that they stopped talking to us before was because they didn't think that the British government would deliver the British parliament. That's what we need to change.

On the question of debates, he is being a coward, it is cowardice not to appear in head-to-head debates.

People need to know what you're going to do and you need to answer those questions, i promise Boris Johnson the fight of his life and he's going to have that and he's going to lose.

We are very concerned: we don't think either side wants a war, but we are very concerned that we could get into an accidental war and we are doing everything we can to ratchet things down.