On Sunday morning, the international trade minister declared her candidacy for prime minister, saying the UK’s leadership “needs to become a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship.”
Her original campaign video featured two seconds of footage of Jonnie Peacock competing in the Paralympics in London in 2012.
Peacock later responded on Twitter, writing, “I officially request to be removed from this video. Please, nothing blue.”
Ms Mordaunt tweeted an updated version of the video just over five hours later.
A plane flying over the camera replaced the Peacock clips.
Several other aspects of her first campaign video were changed in the second.
A clearly identifiable smiling police officer was replaced with a clip of a tractor driving through a field.
Cricketer Jonny Bairstow appeared in the first video but was replaced by the Angel Of The North sculpture in the sequel.
A clip of the Welsh football team celebrating its victory over Ukraine in June immediately followed Bairstow in the original video. This was also removed from the second video.
A clip of soldiers dressed in a uniform unrelated to the British armed forces was also included in the original video, but it was replaced with footage of Westminster.
The video of Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the British co-developer of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, was replaced with more generic footage of healthcare workers.
