AS the race to become Conservative leader narrows it is now certain the next Prime Minister will be an Oxford graduate.

Just two candidates will make the run-off in which 160,000 Tory party members choose the next PM, with Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove now left.

Home seretary Sajid Javid, an Exeter University graduate, was knocked out in the fourth round ballot this afternoon with 34 votes.

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Mr Johnson, former MP for Henley-on-Thames, appears certain to make it through to the next stage of the process, strengthening his lead to 157, more than half the parliamentary party, in the most recent ballot.

It is now seems to be a question of whether Mr Gove, who moved to second place with 61 votes, or Mr Hunt, narrowly behind him on 59,  will join the former foreign secretary in the final two.

The fifth round of voting got underway at 3.30pm, with the result expected around 6pm.