And, scotland are out of the womens world cup. There was penalty drama as they let a 3 0 lead against argentina slip, whilst england beat japan. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The tory race to become the next Prime Minister continues today, as mps decide which two candidates will face a members vote. Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson looks certain to make the final pair. He topped the ballot in the first three rounds of voting. Last night, he secured the support of 143 out of 313 conservative mps. But the race to join him remains too close to call. Jeremy hunt, michael gove and sajid javid are all in the contest after fellow candidate rory stewart was knocked out last night. Lets look at how the process works. Conservative mps will begin voting for who they wish to be the next Prime Minister in a secret ballot this morning, with the results expected ataboutipm. The candidate with the fewest votes is knocked out, leaving three candidates remaining. There will then be a further vote this afternoon, where the candidate with the fewest votes is again knocked out, leaving the final two. The result of this last parliamentary ballot is expected at 6pm. The final two candidates will then begin trying to win the support of conservative members, of which there are around 160,000. Saturdayjune 22nd sees the first hustings take place in birmingham. The party aims to hold hustings in all 12 regions of the uk throuthune and july to allow tory members to see the candidates in action. Conservative members will recieve their postal ballots in early july, and vote for who should be the next party leader and Prime Minister. The result will be announced in the week beginning july 22nd. Lets get the latest from our assistant Political Editor norman smith. A busy day ahead. A flurry of interviews from the candidates and their backers this morning as they jostle for position and those votes. What will be happening with rory stewa rts what will be happening with Rory Stewarts boats . Well will they go Rory Stewarts votes . Where will they go . There are a lot of talk about the dark arts and people moving votes behind different candidates to novel others. The only person who could really do that is Boris Johnsons team person who could really do that is borisjohnsons team because he has loads of votes to spare so he is the only team that can afford to play that game and there have been suggestions that may be he was behind the behalf bizarre behaviour in terms of the votes for rory stewart because he ended up in the last place of those who went through then he suddenly doubled his votes a nd through then he suddenly doubled his votes and then yesterday he crashed back down, losing ten and a lot of people are saying that that was because Boris Johnsons people are saying that that was because borisjohnsons people supported rory stewart to knock out dominic raab and then pulled the plug on him out of the race. Its almost impossible to substantiate those claims because what mps do in the privacy of the booth is up to them and Campaign Managers have no effect at all. We are shaping up for a straightforward tussle, it seems between jeremy hunt and a straightforward tussle, it seems betweenjeremy hunt and michael gove. Jeremy huntjust betweenjeremy hunt and michael gove. Jeremy hunt just ahead betweenjeremy hunt and michael gove. Jeremy huntjust ahead with michael gove breathing down his neck and gradually getting closer and i suppose the achilles heel for jeremy hunt is that he is a former remain and Boris Johnsons jeremy hunt is that he is a former remain and borisjohnsons people say they are relaxed about facing jeremy hunt, even dubbing him as theresa may in trousers. In response, mr hunt as adopted a more abrasive stance tweeting over night that he will put his heart and soul into giving Boris Johnson that he will put his heart and soul into giving borisjohnson the contest of his life and again this morning restating his now familiar argument that he is the man who can cut a deal with brussels. We have to put someone forward as Prime Minister who the European Union are actually prepared to talk to. That is the only way to get a better brexit deal and solve the crisis we are in. Lets not forget sajid javid is still in the race, against all predictions and many people thought he would be for the chop in the first round, then the second, then the third but he is still there. His tea m the third but he is still there. His team are saying do not underestimate him although he is coming from a long way behind. His argument is to make this a more outward looking modern facing campaign, not an Old School Tie contest between people who went to 0xbridge. Still difficult for him, although he was sounding upbeat this morning. I want to go for it and try my best and by the end of the day we will have two candidates for the leadership election in one of them will certainly be Boris Johnson leadership election in one of them will certainly be borisjohnson and i think will certainly be borisjohnson and ithinki will certainly be borisjohnson and i think i have the strongest case for being the other one, a change candidate that can win over the nation in a general election with Jeremy Corbyn because we must keep oui Jeremy Corbyn because we must keep our sights set on that and keep Jeremy Corbyn out of government. You mentioned, where will the rory stewart votes go, and he tweeted this morning that he is not backing anyone in particular. That said, i would think michael gove would hope to get some of his votes because we know yesterday michael gove and rory stewart were involved in talks to look at whether they might be able to get some sort of pact, although that didnt happen. Michael goves best pitch is that he is a brexiteers and if you want to stop borisjohnson, then maybe he is the man. He obviously was involved in a pretty bitter feud with Boris Johnson last time so you would imagine he has the energy and motivation to go toe to toe with borisjohnson. This was his thoughts as he left home this morning. Im feeling very confident today and i had a wonderful level of support yesterday from my parliamentary collea g u es yesterday from my parliamentary colleagues and im looking forward to making it through to the final two and then a several civilised debate with boris to make sure we can make the country better. We are on course for what looks like a very close race indeed for second place and it really is almost impossible to tell who is going to nudge it, whether it will be jeremy to tell who is going to nudge it, whether it will bejeremy hunt or michael gove. A footnote to that, albeit a significant footnote, warnings from the chancellor Philip Hammond ahead of the speech he will be making tonight about what he thinks brexit could do to the british economy. Tell us more about what he will be saying. Philip hammond is slightly demob happy because his time in the treasury is coming to an end and we have already had in the past few days him sounding off against theresa mays spending splurge to try and ensure her legacy. Tonight he is expected to fire a warning shot across the bowers of all the leadership contenders, saying dont think about no deal, because if you do you wont have any money to spend anything because the extra cash he has kept back will have to go for no deal planning. Also, interestingly, saying nothing much will change. Parliamentary arithmetic is not going to change, the eu negotiating sta nce going to change, the eu negotiating stance will not change, Northern Ireland border, that isnt going away. So you guys need to have a plan band away. So you guys need to have a plan b and what is interesting is that mr hammond is suggesting that plan b ought to be another referendum as he is saying the only way to break the logjam would be to have another referendum. It is interesting, because up until now its almost become impossible for any senior tory to move to the idea of another referendum. Now we have the chancellor, albeit a departing chancellor, nevertheless saying, actually it might be the only way to sort this out. Norman, thank you very much. Do stay with us on the bbc news channel for the latest on the lorry tory leadership race. Well be bringing you coverage of the final two rounds of voting throughout the day, with the results expected at 1pm and 6pm. The dutch Prime Minister has told the bbc that the uks economy and place in the world will be seriously diminished after brexit. He was talking to our europe editor katya adler on the eve of the Eu Council Summit in brussels. They began by talking about the challenges of brexit facing the new british Prime Minister whoever that may be. When the new Prime Minister comes in and would ask for an extension, we all have to learn about what his plan will be in terms of new elections, a new referendum, making changes to the red lines that the uk currently holds. If nothing is happening, it would mean after the 3ist happening, it would mean after the 31st of october, again, can we make changes . No, we cant, because we have to change the red lines, then there is no point in an extension. You would be prepared to have no deal brexit on the 31st of 0ctober . No deal brexit on the 31st of october . No, i hate it, i hate brexit from every angle and i hate brexit from every angle and i hate brexit from every angle and i hated brexit from every angle and i hatedd no brexit from every angle and i hated no deal angle no deal brexit from every angle and we have to avoid the ha rd every angle and we have to avoid the hard brexit, so we must walk towards a negotiated brexit and i hope it is possible by the 31st of october. And again, with brexit, be it hard or not, the impact on the economy, society, everything is huge, it is so society, everything is huge, it is so much bigger than so many people anticipate and that is my worry about the united kingdom. Therefore iamso about the united kingdom. Therefore i am so sad you are doing this because the impact is huge and many people are underestimating it and you will have a diminished role on the world stage, your economy will suffer and it will have a huge impact on society. The populist eurosceptic threat for those who believe in the eu has not gone away though, has it . Not completely. It is something you deal with here and you had to face it in your recent general election. How does the eu navigate its way through . Surely we are ina navigate its way through . Surely we are in a period of new latex. The paradox is this and ive had this many questions time with david cameron, the direction that the uk wa nted cameron, the direction that the uk wanted us to take, we took, from 2012 slash 13, the whole idea of a closer union and the unavoidable to your history and this unavoidable march to a sort of european superstate is all gone. Nobody in a Senior Leadership position will end up Senior Leadership position will end up pleading for that. So we have most of the direction that the uk wa nted most of the direction that the uk wanted the eu to move in the paradox is that when Jean Claude Juncker came in the European Parliament said there was not enough for them to do and im very happy about it. I want and im very happy about it. I want a European Parliament that is complaining that they dont have enough legislation on their plate. It is good. It means the European Union is focusing on core interests and moving away on doing everything to everyone. Adam fleming is in brussels for us. Listening to that, this is a self confessed anglophile, one of the uks biggest fans in the eu and he is saying all of that and it really highlights the realities of brexit as eu leaders see it versus the reality that the candidates for Prime Minister are talking about. Yes, there are two points i would make. The first is looking at the netherlands, close to the uk geographically, politically and economically and its going to be really ha rd economically and its going to be really hard hit, one of the hardest hit of all the other eu countries if there is no deal brexit but they have decided that their National Interest is best served by preserving the eu interests and protecting the integrity of the Single Market rather than facing one of their friends who is leaving and thatis of their friends who is leaving and that is the kind of philosophy that informed the Brexit Process and that is why where we are and even though countries aligned with the uk are not prepared to rip up the eu brexit position. The second thing to say is in the rest of the interview that we did not have time to look at, he is critical of the ideas being put forward by tory leadership candidates, the idea that Boris Johnson mentioned that you could have a transition period, a standstill period after the uk had left with no deal and then negotiate the future relationship from there and he says no, the transition period comes with the Withdrawal Agreement so period comes with the Withdrawal Agreement so you period comes with the Withdrawal Agreement so you only get the transition period where things stay the same for a couple of years if you signed the deal, so interesting listening to him. Interesting that brexit is well down the agenda for the people gathering their having biggerfish to fry the people gathering their having bigger fish to fry at the moment. That is totally true. Brexit has been allocated a five minute slot at the end of the summit tomorrow lunchtime and it will be an update on the state of play from donald tusk and Jean Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission will update everyone on the eu contingency plans in case there is no deal on the deadline on the 31st of october and theres a lot of other business for the leaders to get through before they get to that point. This afternoon they will discuss Climate Change and whether the eu should collectively have that target being Carbon Neutral by 2015 and nearly every single country is in favour of that but there are some big important holdouts and we are waiting to see what the final communique says and whether they go explicitly for the target or a aim without signing up and then the big show is tonight, the dinner where all 28 leaders including theresa may will talk about the process for nominating the eu topjobs. There are about to be vacancies for president of the European Commission, president of the european council, who chairs the summit, president of the European Central bank, president of the European Parliament and the higher representative, the Foreign Policy chief. Varying things have to be balanced like geography, gender, politics, the European Parliament wa nts to politics, the European Parliament wants to have a say over the Commission President and there is even a split between countries that wa nt to even a split between countries that want to get names chosen tonight and some that want to get a weight on and there is the prospect of another emergency summit to finish off the process which means this may or may not be theresa mays last ever trip to brussels for an eu summit. An eu changing of the guard. Thank you, adam, in brussels. Iran and the United States say that an american surveillance drone has been shot down over the strait of hormuz, the vital shipping line between iran and the arab gulf states. Irans revolutionary guards say they brought down the Unmanned Aircraft when it entered iranian airspace. Pentagon sources deny this, saying their Us Navy Drone was flying in International Airspace. Tension remains high in the region following a number of attacks on oil tankers that washington and its allies have blamed on tehran. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman is in the port city of fujairah in the uae. Another episode of claim and cou ntercla i m another episode of claim and counterclaim and accusation and denial between iran and the us. What fa cts denial between iran and the us. What facts have been confirmed . M denial between iran and the us. What facts have been confirmed . It seems pretty clear that a drone was shot down. Neither side denies that fact and this was a High Altitude american surveillance drone, very powerful drone that can fly for hours on end and scoop up images of what it sees below it. The key issue is where the drone was and when it came down. The Iran Revolutionary guard said it had flown this morning into iranians airspace and masses when the air defences were brought down and the americans had no comment other than to say that the