Minister without Portfolio Esther McVey arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting. (Photo by Jeff Moore/PA Images via Getty Images) Jeff Moore - PA Images via Getty ImagesA Tory minister was openly laughed at after she claimed Rishi Sunak has “turned the economy round”. Esther McVey, the minister for common sense, was speaking the day after it was revealed the UK has gone into recession. Appearing on BBC Radio 4′s ‘Any Questions’ programme on Friday night, McVey said Tory MPs must rally round the prime minister despite the party’s latest humiliating by-election defeats. AdvertisementShe said: “People need to now get behind Rishi Sunak, who actually inherited a difficult set of circumstances and say ‘yes, he has turned the economy round - that is turning round now’.”As the studio audience burst into laughter, presenter Alex Forsyth said: “Is it?

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