Social media users last night once again targeted Penny Mordaunt's hair after the Tory was grilled in a brutal election debate.
The Leader of House of the Commons was torn into by Nigel Farage in another miserable evening for the Tories in which they slipped behind the Reform leader's party in an opinion poll for the first time.
At the start of the seven-way ITV debate Mr Farage gleefully boasted Reform had overhauled the Conservatives to become the opposition to Labour.
Some viewers, though, were once again distracted by Ms Mordaunt's hair and couldn't help but notice it had less volume than last week's bouffant style during the BBC debate.
One felt the deflated look mirrored her performance on the stage, while another jibed that ITV had saved £400 in hairspray.
LAST NIGHT -- Social media users last night once again targeted Penny Mordaunt's hair saying it looked deflated during a brutal election debate
LAST WEEK -- Some viewers couldn't help but notice it had less volume than last week's bouffant style during the BBC debate
A third mused Ms Mordaunt's locks had increasingly flattened during the campaign trail.
'Penny, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your hair appears to have deflated quite considerably during the campaign,' one X/Twitter user said.
It comes after last week people questioned whether she was trying to channel Margaret Thatcher with her hairstyle during an election debate.
Columnist Ian Dunt wrote on Twitter/X last Saturday: 'She looks like she's purposefully done a Thatcher to her hair.'
A journalism professor Eamonn O'Neill commented: 'Margaret Thatcher called and would like her hair back. #pennymourdant.'
Commentator Darren Grimes posted: 'Penny’s hair is very 1970s Lady Thatcher!'.
Meanwhile other social media users used their photoshop skills to create hilarious memes about the Tory MP's bold hairstyle in tonight's debate.
While others drew comparisons to bizarre hairstyles from film and TV.
One social media user wrote: 'Penny Mordaunt is frightening, it's growing as I watch. I'm not going to sleep tonight.'
The ITV debate viewers took to X/Twitter to poke fun at the Leader of the House of Commons
One Twitter user posted: 'Let's be honest the only part of Penny Mordaunt that is 'standing up and fighting' is her bloody hair.'
It was another bruising night for the Tories with a bombshell poll ahead of the ITV debate revealing Mr Farage's Reform party had overtaken the Conservatives.
A YouGov survey for The Times put Reform up two points to 19 per cent, with the Tories unchanged on 18 per cent.
The symbolic moment of Reform moving ahead of the Conservatives is another shattering blow to PM Rishi Sunak with just three weeks until the general election.
The poll showed Labour with an 18-point lead, with Sir Keir Starmer's party backed by 37 per cent of voters.
The Liberal Democrats were four points behind the Tories on 14 per cent.
Commenting on the YouGov result this evening, prior to taking part in an ITV debate, Mr Farage said: 'This is the inflection point - the only wasted vote now is a Conservative vote.
'We are the challengers to Labour, we're on our way.'
