Politics

27 funny tweets to bring you up to date with the Tory leadership race

And then there were five.

Rishi Sunak

Penny Mordaunt

Liz Truss

Kemi Badenoch

Tom Tugendhat

Hours after claiming to be the only candidate who could stop people crossing the channel in dinghies, Attorney General Suella Braverman lost her place in the Tory leadership race.

Ms. Braverman’s defeat, and other aspects of the race to take Johnson’s dunce hat crown, gave Twitter plenty of joke fodder.

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