Robert Jenrick gives out hats bearing slogan about sex act at Tory conference

Robert Jenrick's campaign is distributing hats featuring a very rude slogan - which appears to demand a sex act.

It all started when the Tory leadership front runner's team decided to start calling him "Bobby J" - an oblique reference to slain US Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy's campaign slogan.

RFK's campaign pins bore the slogan "We want Bobby K" - which the Jenrick campaign malapropriated into "We want Bobby J". But it appears nobody at the campaign looked up the slang meaning of the term - which online swearing website Urban Dictionary say refers to a sex act.

One member of a rival campaign said: "We knew the Jenrick campaign sucked, but with this latest gaffe he's really going down." Despite Mr Jenrick vowing to "bring back British manufacturing", the hats were made in China.

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Other goodies handed out by the Jenrick campaign include enormous Jenrick for Leader T-shirts, which were made in Bangladesh - and a device designed to allow activists to deliver leaflets through letterboxes without getting their hands bitten by dogs.

The Postie Mate was made in the UK, and invented by former Ukip parliamentary candidate David Meacock.

The Sunday Mirror revealed last month that Mr Jenrick's dog, Toffee, had been accused of "attacking" a pomeranian in the street near his London home - but the campaign insisted it was nothing more than one dog barking at another through a fence.

Asked about the 'very blue' slogan on the hats, a Jenrick campaign spokesman said they'd have to "suck it up."