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Who will be the next Tory leader?

Alex Donohue from betting agency Ladbrokes gave the Daily Politics the latest odds on who is favourite among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs to become the party's next leader.

But it is Chancellor George Osborne who is still seen as the frontrunner to succeed David Cameron.

MP Jacob Rees-Mogg - who is at 100/1 - said the party had only once chosen the frontrunner to lead the party - Anthony Eden - and it was a "disaster".

He also predicted that Mr Cameron's replacement will not be anyone who backs the UK's continued membership of the European Union, because "the party at large is soundly Eurosceptic".

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson jokingly ruled herself out of the race saying she had "absolutely no interest in the job", but Mr Rees-Mogg told her she'd be "brilliant".

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