 Carol Vorderman's remarks about a government minister's education have been branded as 'snobbery' in parliament. The former Countdown host, 62, is no stranger to giving the Tory Party a piece of her mind, having previously called out the likes of 'disgusting' Boris Johnson over his flagrant lockdown rule-breaking during the pandemic. More recently, the This Morning star has taken aim at the Conservative cabinet office minister Johnny Mercer and his wife Felicity Cornelius-Mercer over their substantial pay packets after they rubbished claims struggling British Army workers were reliant on food banks. 'He said yday military personnel don't need to go to foodbanks He earns over £110k as a Minister & pays her in his office £35-40k. She's paid more than Army officer & TWICE more than young soldier. RT [sic],' she had previously tweeted. In a further jab at the married couple, Carol had also written on social media: 'Not a degree in sight in spite of expensive private education! So who'd employ them?' The message was followed with a shrugging emoji. Carol isn't have any of the nonsense from the Tory party(Picture: ITV/Shutterstock) Siobhan Baillie, conservative MP for Stroud, weighed in on the feud during an adjournment debate in the House of Commons, where she was making the case for how and why access to on-the-job training should be improved. She said: 'Snobbery about further education and no degree sadly continues to this day. You just have to look at Carol Vorderman's attack on (Tory minister Johnny Mercer) and his wife.' After referencing the Math's whizz's tweet about Mercer's education, she said: 'This is the latest example of nonsense. Dismissing a minister who works tirelessly for the armed forces and veterans for not having gone to university is bad enough, but deliberately being condescending about the lives of millions of people who did not go to university is absolutely unforgiv){kind=link}
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Carol Vorderman’s remarks about a government minister’s education have been branded as ‘snobbery’ in parliament.
The former Countdown host, 62, is no stranger to giving the Tory Party a piece of her mind, having previously called out the likes of ‘disgusting’ Boris Johnson over his flagrant lockdown rule-breaking during the pandemic.
More recently, the This Morning star has taken aim at the Conservative cabinet office minister Johnny Mercer and his wife Felicity Cornelius-Mercer over their substantial pay packets after they rubbished claims struggling British Army workers were reliant on food banks.
‘He said yday military personnel don’t need to go to foodbanks He earns over £110k as a Minister & pays her in his office £35-40k. She’s paid more than Army officer & TWICE more than young soldier. RT [sic],’ she had previously tweeted.