Politics

"If I’d know that Brexit would lead to the complete destruction of the Tory party, I would have voted for it", Richard Herring said.

During the penultimate episode of Mock The Week, Ed Byrne took a sweary swipe at the political influence which has 'taken the BBC hostage'.

The protesters, wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts, threw two tins of Heinz Tomato soup over the 1888 work.

“Top level shithousery from Ed... if it wasn’t for that pesky bacon sandwich. What could have been,” one person said.

The Tory peer said Liz Truss could still survive as PM because the party’s MPs wont want to risk a general election.

Having taking charge of the party in June, Kim Campbell of Canada's Progressive Conservatives lost the election and her own seat in October.

Rishi Sunak is favourite to replace her, followed by Penny Morduant and new chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

"What we've seen just now is a humiliation for Truss and govt but more than anything else it is a humbling day for Britain," Lewis Goodall said.

It impacts their relationship, according to one colleague at the University of Leeds.