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TORY infighting continued yesterday when one minister sacked by Theresa May compared her to an executioner during the French revolution.
Hugo Swire was among 11 junior ministers kicked off the front bench by the new Prime Minister as she completed her Cabinet reshuffle yesterday.
Mr Swire, a Foreign Office minister since 2012, reacted by comparing sacked allies of David Cameron to condemned prisoners sent to the guillotine during the French revolution.
He wrote on Twitter: “Not a good time to be a Cameroon. The tumbrils are rolling again!”
Tumbrills were the carts used in revolutionary France to carry condemned prisoners to their place of execution.
Ministers who were part of Michael Gove’s former team at the Ministry of Justice have also been purged, with Andrew Selous the latest to leave.
However, bedroom tax architect Lord Freud hung on his to his role as Minister for Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions.
