James Cleverly has his ‘Angela Rayner moment’ with brutal joke about Rishi Sunak’s height | Politics | News [Video]

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.

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 …