Paul O’Grady still feeling impact of Covid as he takes aim at ‘these two planks’ Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak: ‘I’d laugh if it didn’t send me off coughing’

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Conservative Party and our next Prime Minister, and he’s not afraid to share them.The TV presenter, who recently revealed he’d tested positive for Covid, appeared to suggest his symptoms weren’t as painful as his experience watching one of the recent debates between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.Sharing he was ‘still a bit done in from this bloody Covid although I’m no longer contagious and haven’t been for a few days’ Paul went on to add he was tuning into the Tory leadership debate alongside millions of others around the country.Or, as he so eloquently put it, ‘two planks trying to persuade us why they’d make a wonderful Prime Minister’.He wrote on Instagram on Tuesday: ‘Truss is banging on about Turbo Charged Toffee, am I hallucinating or what?

Whilst the other one is insistent that we know he once had a Saturday job in a chemist.‘To hear him you’d think he’d been forced to work down the mines since he was a child.

What a carry on, I’d laugh if it didn’t send me off coughing so I’m making do with scornfully curled lip.’Paul wrote: ‘Once again, thanks for all your kind messages when I was away from home and feeling like I’d been dug up and belted with the shovel.’Evidently Paul – who wrote several days ago he was positive for Covid after so-far being able to avoid it – was tuning into the debate before it was forced off air, after moderator Kate McCann collapsed at the podium.The presenter fainted halfway through Truss and Sunak’s head-to-head on Tuesday night and was heard collapsing to the floor.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoForeign Secretary Truss was visibly shocked by the scenes at hand and held her hands to her face as she exclaimed ‘Oh.