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AS THE most tumultuous, cataclysmic and risibly farcical month in the recent history of British politics proceeds at pace it was tempting to think that nothing else could possibly occur to make the situation more ludicrous.

That however was to factor without prospective Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom.

The hitherto peripheral Energy Minister appears to be revelling in her new-found, and most likely short-lived, celebrity status.

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