Last night the Liberal Democrats managed to overturn Zac Goldsmith’s 23,000 majority in Richmond Park. While Goldsmith was visibly downcast over the result, the former London mayoral candidate did manage to put his disappointment to one side as he wished his successor Sarah Olney well in her role.
Alas, the same can’t be said for everyone in the Goldsmith clan. Early this morning as rumours began to grow that Olney had clinched victory, Zac’s brother Ben Goldsmith took to social media to brand Olney ‘unimaginably drab’ — ‘even by Lib Dem standards’.
With the ‘drab’ Olney going on to beat his brother at the polls, Mr S is unsurprised the message has since been deleted.
Update: After getting cold feet over his 2am tweet, Goldsmith has found his voice again. Goldsmith says Olney is an ‘utterly dreary Lib Dem’ who only won because Richmond had a ‘Brexit tantrum’.
In a Brexit tantrum Richmond has replaced its inspired MP with an utterly dreary Lib Dem (even by Lib Dem standards).
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