Swire’s Twitter account gives the impression he jumped (see post below) but Daily Mail (so it MUST be true!) says he was pushed:
“The Prime Minister continued her ‘posh boy purge’ by removing Old Etonian Hugo Swire as a Foreign Office Minister. He responded by tweeting a cartoon image of Bugs Bunny saying: ‘That’s all, folks.’
Mr Swire lost his job shortly after using Twitter to liken sacked allies of David Cameron to condemned prisoners sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
He said: ‘Not a good time to be a Cameroon. The tumbrils are rolling again!’
Mrs May also sacked public-school educated Ed Vaizey, who was Arts Minister”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3693766/Brutal-sacks-Gove-ally-New-Prime-Minister-s-ruthless-reshuffle-continues-Dominic-Raab-loses-Justice-Minister-role.html
Swire was very briefly Private Parliamentary Secretary to Theresa May when she was Conservative Party Chairman in 2003. Perhaps it was an experience one or both of them did not want to repeat.
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