The two candidates vying to be the next Tory party leader both ruled out a general election before delivering Brexit, and joined the prime minister in condemning Donald Trump's "totally unacceptable" tweets.
Speaking at what was expected to be the last live debate of the leadership contest on Monday evening, Boris Johnson said "we will have an election at some stage in 2022".
His rival Jeremy Hunt said he agreed with prime minister Theresa May in condemning Mr Trump after the president told US congresswomen to “go back” to the “broken and crime-infested places from which they came”.
Mr Johnson added that the language used by the US president was “totally unacceptable”.
However neither politician would go as far as to call the comments racist.
Earlier in the day, Mr Johnson was warned that suggestions he could strike an early US trade deal in October would be a "breach" of EU law.
International trade secretary Liam Fox dismissed reports that the Tory frontrunner could broker a deal with Washington as soon as the UK leaves the EU on 31 October, saying it was impossible to negotiate anything in earnest until after Brexit.
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International trade secretary Liam Fox has played down suggestions that a Boris Johnson-led government would be able to strike a deal with Washington as soon as the UK leaves the EU on October 31.
Dr Fox, who is supporting Jeremy Hunt for the Tory leadership, told the Today programme: "We can't negotiate anything with the US until after we have left the European Union.
"It would be in breach of European law for us to do that."
Dr Fox said the government had done a lot of preparatory work for a US trade deal but it would be a breach of the rules to discuss details before leaving the EU.
Die-hard cricket fan Theresa May is in a good mood day - and has tweeted a video of herself dancing.
Campaigner Gina Miller is launching legal action to stop Boris Johnson suspending parliament in order to force through EU withdrawal without a deal.
The businesswoman’s lawyers have written to the probable next prime minister warning it would be “constitutionally unacceptable” and unlawful for him to lock MPs out of the Commons to stop them from blocking a no-deal outcome.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the Iran nuclear deal is not dead yet.
On his way in to an EU meeting in Brussels on the issue, Mr Hunt said of the international agreement aimed at preventing Tehran gaining a nuclear weapon: "Well, it isn't dead yet.
"And we are totally committed to keeping the Middle East denuclearised.
"If Iran acquires nuclear weapons then other countries in the region will acquire nuclear weapons.
"It becomes a very, very toxic and dangerous situation."
A Tory former minister has said he will step down at the next election because the Conservatives are becoming an English "nationalist" party that is trying to "appeal to the extremes".
Guto Bebb, who resigned as a defence minister last year in protest at Theresa May's Brexit policy, said he did not feel able to support either Jeremy Hunt or Boris Johnson as leader.
The leadership contest between the pair had exposed "attitudes within the Conservative Party that don’t appeal to me at all", he said.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has been ridiculed for politicising England’s victory in the Cricket World Cup by saying it showed “we clearly don’t need Europe to win”.
The Conservative MP’s attempt to link sporting triumph to Brexit attracted widespread derision, with many cricketing fans pointing out the England team’s international make-up.
The arch-Brexiteer backbencher, who was at Lord's watching the match, celebrated the team’s dramatic win over New Zealand on Sunday by writing on Twitter: “We clearly don't need Europe to win.”
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Plenty of discussion in Westminster this morning about this story in The Times on Boris Johnson's plans to strike an early deal with the US.
It says: "Under plans being discussed by Mr Johnson’s team he would strike a limited trade deal in “one area” of goods in time for October 31. He and Mr Trump would also establish the broad outlines of a fully fledged deal.
“There is no question that the moment we leave on the 31st we should be in a position to get some kind of arrangement with the US,” the source said.
The woman lined up to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as EU commission president has said she is open to extending Brexit talks past October, a letter seen by The Independent reveals.
Ursula von der Leyen, who was tapped by member states for the top job in Brussels, said she would “support a further extension if good reasons are provided” beyond the current deadline.
But the German politician was emphatic that she would not change the deal struck by Theresa May, adding: “The Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with the United Kingdom is the best and only possible deal for an orderly withdrawal.”
A journalist who Boris Johnson discussed helping a friend to have beaten up has called for an apology from the Tory leadership front runner.
Stuart Collier, the reporter at the centre of the incident almost three decades ago, said he believed that Mr Johnson was unfit to be prime minister.
In 1990, Mr Johnson was secretly recorded agreeing to provide Mr Collier's address to friend Darius Guppy, who wanted to arrange for the journalist to have his ribs cracked in revenge for investigating his activities.
In the event no attack took place, and after the recording came to light in 1995, Mr Johnson - who had been the Brussels correspondent of The Daily Telegraph at the time - dismissed the conversation as a joke.
However, Mr Collier, 69, who had been working for the News of the World, told The Guardian that although he had only found out about it long after the fact, it had left him worried for the safety of his family.
He said he thought it was "disgraceful" that Mr Johnson could be prime minister and said he should "definitely apologise".
"I didn't treat it as a joke. That's why I warned my wife to be careful about who she answered the door to," he said.
"I took it seriously at the time and it concerned me. I was worried, certainly worried enough to put my wife on a warning."
Mr Collier's wife, Jennifer, added: "He should be accountable for the things that he's done. I think it's disgraceful behaviour."
Theresa May has refused to criticise the Metropolitan Police for warning the press not to publish leaked diplomatic cables.
Her official spokesman told a Westminster briefing: “The Metropolitan Police has issued two statements and both are a matter for them. I won’t comment on either."
He added: "A free press is one of the foundations on which our democracy rests”
Read the background on this row here.
Theresa May, a die-hard cricket fan, said: "Yesterday was a brilliant performance by a brilliant team. They showed flair, courage and an absolute determination to become world champions.
"The achievement, delivered in such a thrilling style on home soil, will live forever in our sporting history.
"It's also exciting to think just how many children will be inspired by this victory to pick up a bat for the first time and hopefully become the great cricketers and World Cup winners of tomorrow.
"We must build on this success, and only yesterday we published the school sport and activity plan. This has been welcomed by nearly 40 leading sports organisations as well as Sport England who said it was a great step forward."
Theresa May has refused to criticise the Metropolitan Police for its controversial warning to journalists not to publish Kim Darroch's leaked criticisms of Donald Trump.
Both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, the two candidates for No 10, have attacked the threat of possible prosecutions of the media – but the prime minister’s spokesman insisted she would not comment.
He also declined to back The Mail on Sunday’s decision to publish the diplomat’s top-secret communications, because there was an “ongoing investigation”.
It also calls for protections for whistleblowers, and should be "commended and supported, never attacked" - especially in the Labour Party.
