Tory leadership: Boris Johnson uses Andrew Neil interview to deny failing to support ambassador - live news

Rolling coverage of the BBC's Andrew Neil interviewing Tory leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, with reaction and analysis

7.04pm BST

Q: Why did you vote for May's deal three times?

Hunt replies:

The reason I voted for it was because at every stage I voted for us to leave the European Union as quickly as possible. And I didn't think it was perfect, but I would have preferred right today to be outside the European Union, to have left the EU, to have resolved that issue and then to tackle the imperfections in that deal, the main one of which was the backstop. And as I say, other leading Eurosceptics, people like Jacob Rees-Mogg, for exactly the same reasons, they also voted for that deal because they also wanted us to leave as quickly as possible.

7.03pm BST

Andrew Neil starts with a zinger.

Jeremy Hunt - like Theresa May you voted to Remain. LikeTheresaMay you're a Tory technocrat. Like Theresa May you voted for her Brexit deal, three times. Why would the Tories want more of the same when it's hardly been a golden age for them?