[Python] How to reclaim horizontal space made available by removing labels and ticks?

I have a row of subplots which start with a histogram and the rest are some qqplots:



I removed the y axis and ticks labels using

for ax in axqq[1:]:
ax.set_ylabel(None)
ax.tick_params(labelleft=False)
# does not help ax.yaxis.set_visible(False)
ax.sharey(axqq[0])
fig.tight_layout()


I would like to remove the horizontal whitespace between the QQ plots.

Since my subplots are not homogeneous (the 1st subplot is a histogram), fig.subplots_adjust does not help.

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