‘Condescending!’ Tory MP slams ‘snobby’ Carol Vorderman over diploma assault

A Tory MP used a debate on coaching and abilities to slam Carol Vorderman, in an rising disagreement between the Conservatives and the previous Countdown star.

Siobhan Baillie argued in favour of coaching and apprenticeships to enhance social mobility, and criticised folks similar to Carol Vorderman who look down on these with no diploma.

Four days in the past Ms Vorderman celebrated polling exhibiting Tory minister Johnny Mercer is about to lose his seat on the common election.

She attacked Mr Mercer and his spouse, saying: “Not a degree in sight in spite of expensive private education! So who’d employ them?”

Ms Baillie stated “snobbery about further education and having no degree continues to this day”.

“To see that we need only look at Carol Vorderman’s attack on my right hon. Friend [Johnny Mercer] and his wife,”

The MP for Stroud stated Ms Vorderman’s assault was the “latest example of nonsense” during which she dismissed the Minister for “not having gone to university”.

Ms Baillie added she had been “deliberately condescending about the lives of millions of people who did not go to university is unforgivable”.

She accused Ms Vorderman of deciding to ‘eat so much political hate for breakfast to get social media hits’, and famous that whereas she “used to admire Carol Vorderman a lot… now, sadly, I just feel sorry for her”.

Ms Vorderman’s submit on Twitter cut up opinion between these having fun with her radical assaults on the Government, and those that accused her of being snobby.

It was additionally identified the TV star solely managed to get a third-class diploma from her time at college.

While Ms Vorderman has not responded on to Ms Baillie’s phrases within the Commons final evening, she did tweet yesterday afternoon that the response to her assault should imply she’s “doing something right”.

She claimed her tweet is being “twisted by the Tories today into trying to label me an education ‘snob”….what a joke…”

“Always a believer in encouraging young people to achieve their best, in whichever way that comes around, to be strong and happy and confident.

“Anything else being espoused is offensive, targeted, predictable Right Wing nonsense.”

Ms Vorderman beforehand endorsed the Conservatives and their training coverage on the 2010 election.