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Tory MPs are quitting politics in droves as they find “the pressures of the job, the hostility of social media, the death threats” totally exhausting, Dame Andrea Leadsom has warned, revealing she has been spat at outside the gates of Parliament. The three-time Cabinet minister said that Brexit was “the best thing we ever did” and urged fellow Conservative ministers to be bolder about trumpeting its benefits, saying: “There’s a huge story to be told, let’s tell it.” And Leadsom also took a swipe at a Cadbury’s discount store for renaming Easter eggs as “gesture eggs”, saying that it is “ridicu…

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