The result of the first round of voting for the Tory leadership is out: David Davis 62, David Cameron 56, Liam Fox 42, Ken Clarke 38. That means former Chancellor Ken Clarke, the least conservative of the bunch, is out. A second round will be held on Thursday. The interesting thing is that Liam Fox considerably over-performed his publicly declared number of 23 supporters, while David Davis didn’t get all of the 66 publicly committed to him. That means that a Fox insurgency might well beat a weakened Davis in the second round (almost all of Clarke’s votes will go to Cameron). Dr. Fox is well known in Washington DC and is probably the most Americophile of the bunch, although all three remaining candidates are strong supporters of the war on terror. Clarke was the only candidate to oppose Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War.