Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson was barred from taking part in ITV's election debate on Tuesday night — she even lost a court battle trying to make it onto the stage. Instead, she spent the evening WhatsApping BuzzFeed News.

Swinson was arriving at ITV's studios to watch the showdown between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn when we got in touch, reeling from the (fake) news that she had apparently been caught slingshotting pebbles at squirrels, and the (real) news that Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino had just been sacked.