The two remaining contenders for the British Conservative Party leadership take their battle to the country at the start of a six-week campaign for activists' votes.
David Cameron and David Davis reached the final round of the contest to succeed Michael Howard by taking the top two slots in a ballot of Tory MPs. Third-placed Liam Fox was eliminated.
"Young pretender" Mr Cameron was firmly installed as the bookies' favourite after securing the support of 90 MPs - almost half of the Tories' 198-strong representation at Westminster.
But shadow home secretary Mr Davis, now the 8-1 outsider with some bookmakers after securing just 57 MPs' votes, insisted that there was everything to play for as the two men battle for the support of 300,000 members of the Conservative Party across Britain.
Tory members will choose the new leader in a postal ballot which closes on December 5th, with the victor expected to be named the following day.
Mr Cameron's campaign got off to a shaky start on Thursday night, as the drugs issue which has dogged him throughout the parliamentary stage of the contest was revived in a TV interview.
For the first time, the shadow education secretary explicitly denied having used cocaine while an MP.
But he refused to discuss whether he had used class A drugs prior to his arrival at Westminster in 2001, insisting "what is private in the past should remain private".
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