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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Gary Lineker, Jonathan Gullis and a gauntlet unlikely to be taken up

Gary Lineker and Jonathan Gullis.
Gary Lineker and Jonathan Gullis. Composite: WireImage/Getty Images; PA Images

POLITICS DAILY?

Football Daily is a broad church with 1,057 readers scattered around various parts the world. Many to be will be fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the name or work of Jonathan Gullis, the Conservative member of parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North and human equivalent of that viral clip starring an irate chimpanzee flinging lumps of its own excrement at curious zoo-goers standing outside its enclosure. Despite being a lowly backbench MP, this former teacher first entered the national consciousness when a clip of him behaving at his most simian in his designated House of Commons seat during Prime Minister’s Questions became a symbol for Tory arrogance, cruelty and indifference towards poverty. With a majority of 6,286 to defend at the next election, it’s a seat Gullis is fully expected to lose, due in no small part to a series of often barely coherent and ill-conceived pronouncements opposing immigration, free school meals, the Black Lives Matter movement, people who eat avocados and Gary Lineker, among other extremely weird bugbears.

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