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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tobi Thomas

‘Be careful what you wish for’: Suella Braverman mocked after resignation

Jokes at Suella Braverman’s expense were served thick and fast on social media after she resigned as home secretary – featuring lashings of tofu.

On Tuesday in the Commons, her last full day as home secretary, Braverman sprayed accusations over the disruption caused by the climate protest groups Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil. “It’s the Labour party, it’s the Lib Dems, it’s the coalition of chaos, it’s the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption that we are seeing on our roads today.”

On Wednesday, as Braverman’s departure was broken by the Guardian, Paul Waugh, the chief political commentator at the i paper, tweeted: “When the going gets tofu, the tofu get going.”

The Daily Star’s live stream, which has posed to viewers whether Liz Truss’s premiership will outlive some lettuce, has added some tofu to the table.

There was this from the Sun’s Noa Hoffman …

… and this from the Times’s Henry Zeffman …

And here the FT’s Jim Pickard …

The Guardian contributor Jason Okundaye said:

And the writer Séamas O’Reilly concluded:

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