Suella Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak is a key contribution to a hilarious new Tory genre | Zoe Williams

Their cod legalese and baffling histrionics have us rolling in the aisles - but what are these wacky no-confidence letters trying to distract us from?

So Andrea Jenkyns's letter to Graham Brady calling for Rishi Sunak to go was, it turns out, just the warm-up missive of no confidence. Our democratically elected leader Boris Johnson," she wrote, who bravely fought for Brexit when parliament was in deadlock. Yes Boris, the man who won the Conservative Party a massive majority, was unforgivable enough."

It seemed like the main event to me: clumsy syntax, pantomime histrionics, Jackanory cadence, ham-fisted recapping for the gerontocracy; could a Conservative sound any dumber? Well, happily, yes. Later in the same letter, Jenkyns warned of Keir Starmer and his imminent socialist cabal" in Downing Street, and the who-are-these-idiots bingo card was complete.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist