Nadine Dorries has faced a backlash after retweeting a mock-up image showing Rishi Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in the back.
The Culture Secretary has been told to "wind her neck in" by fellow Tory ministers after wading in on the leadership contest on behalf of Liz Truss.
She penned a "divisive, disingenuous" column on why she had mocked the former chancellor over his expensive taste in clothing, and for retweeting an image showing Mr Sunak stabbing Boris Johnson in the back with a knife. The staunch loyalist of Mr Johnson shared an image depicting him as Julius Caesar about to be stabbed by a knife-wielding Mr Sunak, suggesting he had betrayed the Prime Minister when he resigned as chancellor.
Business minister Greg Hands condemned Ms Dorries' actions as "distasteful" and "dangerous" in the wake of the killing of Southend West Tory MP Sir David Amess at a constituency surgery in Essex last October."I think this is appalling. "Look, it's not even a year since the stabbing of Sir David Amess at his Southend constituency surgery, so I think this is very, very bad taste, dangerous even."
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