Rory Stewart tweet

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Rory Stewart wins April Fools Day with Number 10 gag - Politics.co.uk (Politics.co.uk)

Boris Johnson has sensationally bought former leadership rival Rory Stewart into his Downing Street team, or has he!? Taking advantage of April 1, ...

Rory Stewart's tweet has won April Fool's Day (The London Economic)

The former Tory leadership candidate had Twitter users gasping and checking the date with his intervention.

Yet, knowing this, the majority of Conservative MPs, and party members, still voted for him to be prime minister. In an article for the Financial Times, Stewart said: “Twenty years have passed since the Conservative party first selected him as a candidate. There is infamously no love lost between Stewart and the prime minister.

Rory Stewart wins twitter with his Number 10 April Fool's Day Prank ... (Joplin Business Journal)

April 1st is the day when on every social media website is flooded with endless unexpected jokes, pranks, memes and confusing social media posts. Celebrities, ...

“I am looking forward to working with the PM, Ministers and Members of Parliament on the issues that matter most to our country,” he continued. I am looking forward to working with the PM, Ministers and Members of Parliament on the issues that matter most to our country It is an honour to have been asked by the PM to serve as Director of Communications for No10 Downing Street.

Rory Stewart pranks Twitter with bemusing Number 10 April Fools joke (HITC)

Rory Stewart has pranked Twitter users with his bemusing Number 10 joke but it looks like some people forgot it's April Fool's Day.

He was a candidate for a leader of the Conservative Party and resigned from his role as a politician after Johnson became Prime Minister. He was elected to the House of Commons in 2010 and served under the David Cameron administration as Minister for the Environment from 2015 to 2016. But others who have followed Stewart on Twitter for a long time are aware that he is not the biggest fan of Johnson and the penny immediately dropped for them.

April Fools' Day 2022: BBC accidentally displayed story about Rory ... (iNews)

An outspoken critic of the PM, the former Conservative MP's prank tweet went viral.

He has remained an outspoken critic of the Prime Minister since leaving politics. He said at the time he had the whip removed by text just minutes after being named GQ magazine’s Politician of the Year. Mr Stewart remained in parliament as an independent before resigning as an MP months after he was defeated by Mr Johnson in the 2019 leadership race.

Tory supporters furious after Rory Stewart jokes he's been given top ... (GB News)

Rory Stewart caused uproar among Conservative supporters after tweeting he'd been given a top comms role in No.10. The former cabinet minister has been an ...

All these people wanted to get on the Treasury Committee… nobody wanted to do foreign affairs and defence. “Actually she was speaking for a whole generation. He said: “I remember when I was running for the Foreign Affairs Committee, as I started, and then later to be chair of (the) Defence Committee, Liz Truss saying to me ‘I can’t understand why you’re obsessed with foreign affairs, I find it really boring – the last thing I want to do is to be Foreign Secretary’.