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Rory Stewart was forced to make an embarrassing confession about his campaign video filmed on Tuesday in Kew Gardens. While speaking, Mr Stewart appears to be holding up his phone with his arm extended, but the camera stays remarkably still. One sharp Twitter user pointed out: “@RoryStewartUK are you pretending to hold your phone?“ Mr Stewart simply posted in response: “Yes.”

In the footage, the International Development Secretary said: “I’m in the slightly absurd setting of Kew Gardens. “I’m here partly because were doing some very interesting work with cocoa farms. “But it’s all actually an amazing reminder for me, after the conversations yesterday in Borough Market ad Barking, just what amazing things we have in this country and how much we can be if we come together. “And actually the things we have in common, the environment, climate, our love of our countryside, our love of our landscape.

Brexit news: Rory Stewart shot the campaign video in Kew Gardens on Tuesday

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“And many of the things that make me proud not just to be a Conservative, but proud to be British.” Theresa May attended yesterday her last EU summit as a British Prime Minister. In her first public appearance since her emotional resignations speech, she blamed the Conservative Party's humiliating results in Europe on failing to deliver Brexit. And she urged her successor to do their utmost to leave the bloc with a Brexit deal.