++Westminster wars ++

PENNY Mordaunt blames a ‘ vicious personal smear campaign’ for being knocked out. Having written last week as her former boss that, lovely as she is, the thought of her as PM filled me with horror, can I point out three more of her bosses have now publicly questioned her work ethic. Not personal Penny, it’s the truth.

BEST sob story of the leadership from Kemi Badenoch — she knew poverty growing up in Nigeria ‘doing her homework by candlelight’, and ‘fetching water from a borehole a mile away’, when her father owned a publishing company, and she was born in a private maternity unit in London.

BORIS’S Hasta la vista, baby farewell in PMQs brought a tear to my eye, mostly as I can’t believe this act of massive self-harm by the Tory Party. And I’m not alone, as a poll of The Mail+ readers reveals 73 per cent of us wanted him to stay as PM.