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Tory power couple’s TV love-in

GB News

It appears David Lammy isn’t the only MP building a lucrative media career. Turning on GB News yesterday, Mr S enjoyed seeing not one but two Tory backbenchers presenting a show together: Esther McVey and her husband Philip Davies. The pair are very much the Beyonce and Jay Z of the Commons, having enjoyed parliamentary freebies together for a number of years. 

And now the couple seem to be making the most publicly out of their private lives by hosting a programme on which they regularly invite their fellow Conservative MPs. Yesterday’s offering for instance boasted not one but two of McVey’s colleagues, with both Treasury minister John Glen and veteran Sir Christopher Chope being interviewed for segments on the show. Two Tory MPs interviewing a third? Talk about televising the 1922 committee.

Luckily for the couple there are rewards in such commitments. McVey,

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