Tories may be plotting to replace the PM with Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt – 17 favourite reactions

10.

Her as PM and him as Chancellor might be the best we can hope for.

Not polishing a turd, but sprinkling it with glitter. https://t.co/z47CXRYFSA

— Andrew Brooks (@taxbod) October 13, 2022

11.

Details are still being worked out, such as who would be at each end. https://t.co/D9qa5Uv4Ee pic.twitter.com/DKlzr5giiU

— Adam Macqueen (@adam_macqueen) October 13, 2022

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Like Liz Truss? You'll love the two people who lost to her in some kind of berserk job share! https://t.co/qFuiss16bX

— Hugh Brechin (@HughRBrechin) October 13, 2022

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You lost, get over it. You can’t just vote again if you don’t like the first result. https://t.co/UHhgzjfNZv

— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) October 13, 2022

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This can just fuck off. They might as well replace her with a boiled egg, or an NFT. It’s still all about saving the party. That’s all it’s ever about. https://t.co/l4gpV4mNNH

— jennylandreth (@jennylandreth) October 13, 2022

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Oh. They were my final two money bets last time! https://t.co/VejvXs6fsh

— Amanda Ferguson #BeanUltach🧙🏻‍♀️ (@AmandaFBelfast) October 13, 2022

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the thing about the westminster system of first-past-the-post, you see, is that it reliably generates stable majority governments https://t.co/KReUn5X2EG

— John Michael McGrath (@jm_mcgrath) October 13, 2022

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Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick…#Newsnighthttps://t.co/XzTXyTuEzu

— Incorrigible FCA (@ImIncorrigible) October 13, 2022

They get away with this in soaps, and what’s more of a soap opera than Westminster?

If they don’t want another leadership contest, is the easiest thing for Liz Truss to simply disappear? Just never mention her again. Someone we’ve never seen before, a stern woman called Mary, turns up for PM duties and they just gaslight us that there was ever anyone else.

— Joel Morris (@gralefrit) October 13, 2022

This suggestion sounds a little more likely.

I wonder if we will keep having Prime Ministers appointed by few and fewer Tories until eventually Graham Brady just pick names out of a hat? https://t.co/inPDW6ctxf

— Mike Holden 💙 (@MikeHolden42) October 13, 2022

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James O’Brien absolutely nailed this analogy for the PM’s mini budget argument

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