Watch: Johnny Mercer attacks Labour ‘Inbetweeners’ MP

An enjoyable bit of by-election telly this morning. As political bigwigs trooped into the news studios to discuss last night’s results, Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates took the chance to ask Johnny Mercer what he made of Selby’s new MP Keir Mather. The ‘baby of the House’ is just 25 years old and is now the first MP born during the Blair government. Mercer though was not impressed by his new parliamentary colleague.

‘We don’t want parliament to become like the Inbetweeners‘ he claimed, pointing out that Mather had spent more time at Oxford University than in subsequent gainful employment. That argument found little favour with Labour’s Baroness Chapman who suggested that Mercer was being ‘a bit insulting and rude.’ ‘He’s been dropped into that constituency and he’s spouted all these identikit Keir Starmer lines’ maintained Mercer. ‘And he beat you!’ shot back Chapman, adding ‘How rude are you today? You need to get some sleep.