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James Cleverly joined Angela Rayner this week in publicly mocking Rishi Sunak's height when he addressed a gathering of journalists today.
The Home Secretary was a last-minute replacement for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt at the Press Gallery lunch and came with a suble joke about the Prime Minister along with a warning to Tory colleagues not to ditch their leader.
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It followed the Labour Deputy Leader describing Mr Sunak as "pint sized" at Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) this week in a tirade which appeared to suggest she wanted Boris Johnson back after he was "stabbed in the back".
But Mr Cleverly, who had been a Boris Johnson supporter, spoke of his surprise at how Mr Sunak had not sacked him as Foreign Secretary when he replaced Liz Truss as Prime Minister despite him endorsing Mr Johnson's bid less than 24 hours before.
However, it was in talking about the more recent reshuffle when he moved from the Foreign Office to the Home Office that he slipped in some jocularity about the Prime Minister's height.
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He described how the Prime Minister "looked me in the eye" to tell him why he was switching departments adding to laughter: "He had to stand on his wallet to do it."
As one guest noted: "That meant Sunak would have already been standing on his desk..."
At 6'3" the Home Secretary, a former Royal Artillery officer, towers over 5'6" Rishi Sunak and the difference has been commented on before.
But Mr Cleverly made it clear that with crucial local elections coming up which could potentially trigger a leadership challenge to Sunak if the results are as bad as expected he believes Tory MPs should stick with "the boss".
He warned that things will only get worse for the party even though they are already trailing by more than 20 points behind Labour.
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Angela Rayner made a crude joke about Sunak's height in PMQs this week (Image: Getty)
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"If you are going to jump out of an aeroplane please make sure you have got a parachhute before you leave the aeroplane. Don't say 'we will work that out on the way down'.
"I think those people who think that another leadership campaign as trunkated as it might be between now and the election is anything other than a bad idea, I don't get it.
"A lot of people including me were surprised when someone who was appointed by Liz [Truss] and 24 hours prior to the reshuffle said 'I think Boris should be the next Prime Minister and not Rishi'. So when Rishi called me in I thought ''m in trouble here' but he said 'I'd love you to stay as Foreign Secretary.'
"So yes I was a bit surprised.
"I'm not from his political tribe. I have worked closely with him and got to know him better since he became Prime Minister. He is a very thoughtful, very clever, incredibly hard working person.
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"He inherited both through Covid, through Ukraine, through the disruption [with the Tory party] at the back end of 2022, a really difficult situation.
"Don't just wave your hands and say things have got to get better. If you have got a plan, tell me your lan and I will judge your plan. In the absense of a plan let's focus on what people ae focussed on like recovering the economy. Which is happening. Increasing defence spending. Which is happening. Increasing policing. Which is happening.
"We should have the discipline to focus on the things which are important to people rather than play the psychodrama."
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