Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can read our main report here, and our analysis here

Here are the results from previous Conservative leadership contests, and from the final MPs' ballot of this contest, that will help put today's results in context.

2024 contest

The choice is between two people who each played their part in 14 years of Conservative chaos and decline, and who have refused to apologise it.

Whoever wins, they have learnt nothing.