A fierce Tory Twitter spat broke out over Brexit on Thursday after the two front runners to win the Conservative leadership contest were accused of endangering the UK’s future outside the European Union.
After Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt came out as the top two in the first round of voting by Tory MPs on Wednesday, Lord Moylan, an arch Eurosceptic and ally of Boris Johnson, tweeted his concerns over their Brexit credentials.
