Rishi Sunak has hit back at David Tennant after the actor said equalities minister Kemi Badenoch should “shut up”.

The Doctor Who favourite said during an LGBT event on Friday that while he “does not wish ill” of the Conservative cabinet minister, “I just wish her to shut up”.

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