Tory row as London Minister assaults mayoral hopeful over car-crash interview

London Minister Paul Scully launched a unprecedented blue-on-blue assault on a Tory mayoral hopeful over a car-crash TV interview.

Moz Hossain, who has made the Conservative shortlist to tackle Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan subsequent 12 months, was grilled by GB News presenter Camilla Tominey with a spherical of sure or no questions throughout an look on her present this morning.

The journalist challenged the barrister on points together with Rwanda, rejoining the EU and if a girl can have a penis.

But Mr Hossain, who’s operating in opposition to London Assembly member Susan Hall to be the Conservative candidate, struggled to present a sure or no reply to numerous the probes.

Mr Scully – who was a frontrunner for the Tory London mayoral candidate however didn’t make it to the shortlist – retweeted the clip and took purpose at Mr Hossain.

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Mr Scully mentioned: “Key thing for a strategic leader of a £20billion per annum organisation is making clear decisions.

“Key factor the citizens expects are clear solutions even when they aren’t what individuals need to hear.

“Final key thing is how to invest heavily in learning lessons over the last 11 days.”

Another ex-hopeful for the Tory candidacy, Samuel Kasumu, added: “Let’s just remember I was told… I did not have enough experience… to even be interviewed.

“What they’ve carried out to Moz is much more merciless than what they’ve carried out to me in taking him this far. Sadiq will not break a sweat with this man – respectfully.”

Presenter Ms Tominey kicked off the round of questions by asking Mr Hossain if he backed the net zero by 2030.

He said: “It’s unimaginable. It’s an incredible ambition nevertheless it’s not going to occur.”

Pressed on yes or no, he said: “As an ambition I’d assist it nevertheless it’s not going to occur.”

Ms Tominey turned to the issue of banning diesel and petrol cars in favour of electric vehicles.

The Tory London mayoral hopeful said: “Again that is so unrealistic.”

Told it is a Tory policy, he added that it is a “good ambition”.

Ms Tominey went on to ask the barrister about the controversial policy of sending illegal migrants on a one-way ticket to Rwanda but was unable to get a yes or no answer.

Mr Hossain began to say: “Look we have now to discover a manner…”

The presenter interjected: “Moz, you are prevaricating. It’s a sure or no recreation.”

Mr Hossain went on: “We need to cease unlawful immigration.”

Ms Tominey asked: “So you assist Rwanda, sure or no?”

He said: “We have to search out an efficient method to cease these legal gangs.”

Asked again yes or no, he added: “We need to discover a method to cease these ghastly legal gangs.”

An exasperated Ms Tominey said: “Moz, you have to reply sure or no questions actually as a result of in any other case the citizens will simply despair.”

Following more back and forth between the pair, he said: “There’s a authorized course of occurring… as a King’s Counsel it will be fallacious.”

Turning to the next question, Ms Tominey asked if the UK should rejoin the EU.

Mr Hossain, who backed Remain in the 2016 referendum, said the issue of Brexit had been settled.

In the next two questions, he said women do not have penises and that he backed gay marriage.

But he ran into problems again when asked if the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights, saying it was a “difficult one”.

Asked if the Tories were right to oust Boris Johnson, Mr Hossain said: “I’m right here to speak about London, I’m right here to speak about that, not about Westminster politics.”