Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries has been criticised for sharing a mocked-up image of Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in the back with a knife.
An MP branded the retweet “dangerous” less than 10 months after a Tory, David Amess, was stabbed to death in his constituency. The digitally altered image of ex-Chancellor Mr Sunak as Brutus, stabbing the PM as Julius Caesar, was tweeted on July 29 by a ‘LizForLeader’-supporting Twitter account.
Culture Secretary and Boris Johnson supporter Ms Dorries then retweeted it on Saturday. The message alongside the photo said: “He is running to become PM. His name is @RishiSunak.”
