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Boris Johnson’s resignation led to a great Benny Hill song prank … and Hugh Grant’s involved?

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It’s been an absolutely wild day of news coming out of the United Kingdom on Thursday: Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be resigning.

And it’s now been accompanied by the sounds of Yakety Sax, most associated with the fast-forwarded antics on The Benny Hill Show.

Also … actor Hugh Grant might have to do with it? Yeah, totally a Mad Libs kind of headline right there.

Anyway, Twitter had a blast watching Tory MP Chris Philp doing a very serious interview while the song was played in the background outside of Parliament. We’ll break it all down and why Grant might have helped:

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