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Now Steve Baker goes for Penny

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It’s all getting a bit heated in the Tory leadership wars. Fresh from the sweltering heat of the Churchill War Rooms, Steve Baker has marched into the LBC studios with his blood clearly boiling. The ‘Brexit hardman’ went on Andrew Marr’s show tonight and launched a howitzer at fellow Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt. Baker, who is backing Suella Braverman of the European Research Group, was asked to assess Mordaunt’s credentials. He replied:

I’m sorry Penny but where were you when I needed you? She was supposed to be a Brexiteer. And when I was a bruised, you know, beaten captain in the trenches, Penny was staying in the Cabinet along with others. They could have resigned, they could have made a difference and they chose to stay in the cabinet and vote for a deal that would have destroyed the Conservative party… in the end, she just wasn’t there when I needed her.

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