Football fever appears to have infected the Commons, following England’s 2-1 win over Denmark last night. Tory backbencher Lee Anderson may still be maintaining his boycott over the team’s ‘taking the knee’ stance but the rest of his parliamentary colleagues have been eagerly following the journey of Southgate’s side, judging by the plethora of pictures plastered across various social media sites.
Even the hallowed chamber of the Commons itself has not been immune from some dreadful football-related ‘puns.’ First Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner opened at the dispatch box today with this ‘zinger’: ‘Football is coming home, but I also think the chickens are coming home to roost for this government.’ Instant red card for that one. And now Jacob Rees-Mogg has managed to one-up the Opposition by quoting the words of England winger John Barnes from his infamous rap section of the 1990 hit ‘World in Motion.’
Mr S would normally have his doubts about MPs singing New Order but as Leader of the House, this genre surely falls within Rees-Mogg’s brief. In
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