Has Rishi Sunak officially killed off the Tory party? As members of his battered party dusted themselves off to return to parliament this morning, they arrived to discover that the official Conservative Twitter/X account had been deleted. Viewers to the page were met with a message telling them that ‘This account doesn’t exist’ – an ironic turn of events, coming just three days after the party lost two-thirds of its MPs. Talk about timing…
After Mr S made some enquiries, it turns out that the truth is slightly less exciting. A party spokesman say that the account was deleted by Twitter/X, not them. It came as a result of an error affecting multiple accounts and party officials are now working to rectify it. A quick fix would be ideal, given that the party will imminently need to begin the hard work of holding Labour to account as His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
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