A retweet by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, exhibiting Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson within the again, has been branded “dangerous” by a fellow Conservative MP.
Greg Hands, who’s backing the previous chancellor within the Tory management race, instructed Sky News the social media put up was “appalling”, particularly after the deadly stabbing of Southend MP Sir David Amess in his constituency final yr.
“It is not even a year since the stabbing of Sir David… so I think this is very, very bad taste, dangerous even,” he stated.
“I do find it distasteful and I do find it, less than a year after the stabbing of our colleague, in very, very poor taste, even verging on dangerous.”
But an ally of Ms Dorries, who’s backing Liz Truss within the management race, stated: “It’s fairly clearly a satirical picture of Brutus and Ceasar which has been clearly photoshopped to supply political commentary.
“There were similar cartoons involving [Michael] Gove in 2016. Some people of course will want to be wilfully offended.”
The tradition secretary has been a staunch defender of the prime minister, and a fierce critic of those that contributed to his downfall.
It is just not the primary time she has induced controversy on social media, tweeting final week in regards to the value of Mr Sunak’s fits, in comparison with the overseas secretary’s earrings from Claire’s Accessories.
She additionally wrote a damning piece in Saturday’s Daily Mail, accusing Mr Sunak of “planning a coup for a very long time” and saying she commented on his gown sense to “alert Tory members not to be taken in by appearances in the way that happened to many of us who served with the chancellor in Cabinet”.
Ms Dorries added: “The assassin’s gleaming smile, his gentle voice and even his diminutive stature had many of us well and truly fooled.”
But Mr Hands stated the more and more bitter contest to turn out to be the following Tory chief – and prime minister of the UK – wanted to be “fought on the issues and on the leadership qualities” of the 2 candidates, quite than insults.
Source: information.sky.com”