Cameron wins Tory leadership race

David Cameron was today elected British Conservative leader, beating his rival David Davis by 134,446 votes to 64,398 – more than two to one.

He becomes the fourth leader of his party since 1997 to take on Tony Blair, promising a new style of politics to woo back disillusioned voters.

The ballot result was announced at London’s Royal Academy of Arts by Michael Spicer, chairman of the Tory MPs’ backbench 1922 committee.

He said there were a total of 198,844 votes cast and declared Mr Cameron “the duly elected leader of the Conservative Party”.