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Jokes about Dominic Raab’s broom sweep the internet

Foreign secretary barricades himself in his study

Some choose furniture. For others a good, old-fashioned key does the trick. But when it came to ensuring his video interview went uninterrupted, the foreign secretary chose a broom.

Viewers of Dominic Raab’s appearance on Sky News this morning were intrigued to see that his method for preventing family disturbances while on the television involved propping the tool against the door.

One user joked that the security measure was “demonstrating the MI6 training that clearly comes with the post of foreign secretary”, while the blogger Paul On Books cruelly noted that the footage merely showed “something wooden, inflexible and of limited capabilities”.

A number noted that he was simply in line with government policy by restricting freedom of movement, while Tony Blair’s former communications chief