Tories delete social media post plugging Britain with a US jet, a Canadian car and a defeated football team

The post on X also breached royal protocol on politics by using image of the king

The Conservatives are having problems with their socials again. Having claimed last month that London was “the crime capital of the world”, the party has now deleted another social media exhortation not to let “the doomsters and the naysayers” talk down Britain.

The post on X claimed that Britain was the second most powerful country in the world, illustrated by pictures including a Canadian-owned Aston Martin, a US F-35 fighter jet and a Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft developed by a European consortium while the UK was in the EU.

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