Watch: Andrew Adonis eviscerated in the Lords

In his bid to reverse Brexit, Lord Adonis has demonstrated few qualms in using any weapon at his disposal. For years now Britain’s most ironically-titled peer has been keeping up a one man Twitter war, stalking the jungles of social media like some Japanese warrior fighting a campaign that ended 30 years ago. Now though, it appears his latest cynical attack on a member of the government has backfired in spectacular style.

Adonis, who has previously demonstrated little interest in green issues, suddenly found himself most exercised at the beginning of the week when he saw the government embroiled in difficulties over its Environment Bill. A series of tweets were fired off aimed at minister Zac Goldsmith, claiming that he had ‘plans to allow water companies to pump raw sewage into rivers and the sea,’ that he ‘proposes pumping raw sewage into rivers and the sea’ and that he was the ‘son of the worst British politician of the last generation besides Farage.