V presenter Carol Vorderman has mentioned that it's “fine” if she loses jobs amid her criticising the Government.

The 62-year-old former Countdown star has been concerned in a number of Twitter arguments with Tory MPs together with not too long ago with Conservative chairman Greg Hands, who she is claimed to have deleted a lot of her Tweets about on Thursday.

When requested how she feels about criticism from the Tories, Vorderman instructed The Times on Saturday: “It doesn’t bother me… I’ll tell you why. I’m knocking on 63. I’ve made my money. I’ve been through it all.

“What’s the worst that can happen? That I’ll lose some jobs? Fine by me. Bring it on. They can sling what they like at me.”

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Vorderman has appeared on ITV’s Loose Women, This Morning and Lorraine together with this 12 months being on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa and internet hosting a BBC Radio Wales present.

Mr Hands had known as for the previous I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! competitor to apologise for posting “defamatory and damaging” tweets about his involvement in a life-style agency being awarded a £25.8 million private protecting gear (PPE) contract in 2020.

On Twitter, now generally known as X, Vorderman mentioned she was “happy to accept Mr Hands’ assurance that his role in the process was simply to refer the approach… (and) there was no impropriety on his part”.

Vorderman has been concerned in different rows with Tory MPs together with in March when she known as on the ladies’s minister, Maria Caulfield, to resign after she couldn't “be bothered to turn up” to a committee listening to concerning the menopause.

The MP, who can be minister for ladies’s well being technique, tweeted that she was “not a punch bag” and mentioned anybody who posted “misleading information” about her can be blocked on the social media platform.

Vorderman additionally instructed the newspaper that individuals of all ages say they “bloody love” what she does after they meet her in public.

She additionally mentioned: “I think even the people who say the Tories are bloody marvellous know it’s not true.”

Some coronavirus-related contracts have been put in a ‘VIP lane’ when the Government was struggling to purchase protecting gear through the pandemic.

A Public Accounts Committee present in July that the Government had a “rushed” method to purchasing private protecting gear (PPE) which resembled “panic buying” however was unable to “comprehensively conclude” that emails from Tory friends led to companies being handled in another way.

“They tried to persuade us we weren’t bothered about Partygate, and we were bothered and are not forgetting it,” Vorderman mentioned. “And also the ‘VIP lane’ is massively emotional, as it bloody well should be.”

Johnny Mercer has additionally had a number of public arguments with Vorderman.

The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs has described Vorderman as a “deeply unpleasant person” on the social media web site, whereas she has posted a quantity important remarks about Mr Mercer’s efficiency as a minister.

However, Vorderman was introduced greater than a decade in the past by Michael Gove as the pinnacle of maths taskforce and appeared earlier than the Women and Equalities Committee to speak about menopause.