Johnny Mercer’s cringe Twitter love-fest

It was Valentine’s day yesterday in Westminster and while Steerpike did a round-up of MPs’ messages to their partners, there was one romantic dispatch he appears to have missed. Step forward Felicity Cornelius-Mercer, better known as the other half of Johnny, the veterans-obsessed Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View. 

Felicity’s Twitter game has been raising eyebrows recently after she posted a picture of her inebriated, snoring husband last week captioned: ‘the Prime Minister rang tonight directly after an afternoon of FA Cup football and England rugby..and @JohnnyMercerUK was so pissed he can’t remember what was said.’ Her defence-mad hubbie replied that ‘wives have a mind and a life of their own’ claiming ‘she’s on this nuts journey with me – the highs and many lows. She is more than entitled to take the p**s out of me/the PM/whoever she likes.’ Truly, the 2022 equivalent to Amber Rudd and Flora Gill’s little Twitter exchanges.