A Conservative MP who defended Boris Johnson by saying he hadn't been to a birthday party but given a "surprise greeting" was told his defence of the Prime Minister was "painful". Tom Hunt had defended the Prime Minister saying that despite being fined for the event at Downing Street, it was an unintentional breach of the Covid rules.
Ellie Mae O'Hagan is director of Class, the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. She has previously worked with Labour and Greenpeace. In an exchange on BBC Two's Politics Live, she confronted Ipswich Conservative MP Tom Hunt for defending the Prime Minister.
She told him his defence, that the Prime Minister had unintentionally broken rules before being subsequently being fined by the Met Police, had been "painful". He then retorted: "Oh it's been painful again according to you? That's great to say." He also told his fellow MP Sarah Jones to let him finish speaking.
