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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Chris Slater

'They are a party of goal hangers': Tory minister mocked for 'cringey and embarrassing' football analogy as she launches attack on Labour and Gary Lineker

A Tory frontbencher has been widely mocked on social media after using a 'cringey' football analogy to have a pop at Gary Lineker and the Labour party.

At the dispatch box the Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt accused Labour of 'borrowing from the Gary Lineker playbook' in its criticism of the Government’s plans to stop small boat Channel crossings.

The Match of the Day presenter has come under fire from ministers after describing the policy as 'immeasurably cruel' and said the 'language used to launch it was "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the ’30s.”

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