Allies of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have been accused of “bullying” and firing “poisonous” criticism, as Nadine Dorries upped the ante of “blue-on-blue” attacks by mocking the former chancellor’s expensive outfits.
Amid fears the Conservative leadership race was descending into “horrific nastiness”, some MPs urged the two remaining candidates to stop “knocking seven shades of shit out of each other” and pull out of the remaining head-to-head TV debates.
