Nicholas Soames barks at female MP

Although Nicholas Soames recently urged the Foreign Secretary to show more kindness and understanding when dealing with one’s opponent, he appears to take a different attitude himself. Winston Churchill’s grandson was today reprimanded by the Speaker after it emerged that he had barked at a female SNP MP as she spoke in the chamber.

The incident occurred as Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh responded to Boris Johnson’s statement on President Trump’s visa ban. Ahmed-Sheikh later raised a point of order:

‘I understand that the right honourable member for Mid Sussex, who has always afforded me courtesy and respect, was making woof woof sounding noises to what I was saying — which I find extremely disrespectful.’

Soames then admitted that her suspicions were in fact correct:

‘I thought that in her question to the Foreign Secretary, she snapped at him a bit at the end so I offered her a friendly canine salute in return.’

Happily, Ahmed-Sheikh was too polite to hurl an insult back — or bring up that a so-called lover of Soames once said making love to him was ‘like having a wardrobe fall on top of you with the key sticking out’.