Johnny Mercer's spouse hit again at Carol Vorderman after the ex-Countdown star accused her of "harassment".

Ms Vorderman, who's a vocal critic of the Conservatives, claimed she had been "harassed" on Twitter for months by Felicity Cornelius-Mercer.

The former Countdown presenter shared a reel of tweets she had been tagged in by Mrs Cornelius-Mercer.

She wrote: "I've been harassed by Johnny Mercer's wife for months. This is from just one day in April and much more abuse elsewhere. I didn't respond at all. Until he mocked military using foodbanks. She's paid c£45k on MP expenses (+200 percent pay rise) to do this?"

Ms Vorderman additionally gave an LBC interview claiming the Veterans Minister's spouse had been "harassing me for months on Twitter", including that she "almost felt like reporting her".

But Mrs Cornelius-Mercer, who is understood for being outspoken on social media, insisted she was solely tagging Ms Vorderman in tweets to point out abuse "you send our way".

She mentioned: "I’m really glad you put this out Carol, as it highlights perfectly the amount of awful and unnecessary traffic you send our way telling followers to target their MPs.

"All in your supposed quest to make sure that the general public hate all Tories. So I despatched all of it again in the future.

"Feel free to stop the reel and read them. These hateful comments are sent to us as a direct result of Carol Vorderman's drivel.

"I’ve solely ever reacted to her garbage about hating all Tories, which has been occurring lengthy earlier than I bought concerned."

It is the latest exchange in the ongoing feud between Ms Vorderman and the Mercers.

The spat erupted when the Tory minister's wife accused the former Countdown star of being a "movie star assault canine" and "inciting folks to hate all Tories” throughout an look on Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women podcast earlier this month.

Ms Vorderman then questioned who would make use of Mr Mercer and his spouse, who manages his workplace, if he loses his seat on the subsequent common election.

Sharing an Electoral Calculus prediction, she mentioned: "Plymouth Moor View predicted Labour win at GE. Gosh, what are arrogant Johnny Mercer and his wife going to do for a joint income of £160,000+ plus enormous expenses?

"Not a level in sight regardless of costly personal training! So who'd make use of them?"

The row made it to the Commons yesterday when Conservative MP Siobhan Baillie branded Ms Vorderman's comments about the couple not having degrees as "snobbery" and "unforgivable".

The Stroud MP weighed in during an adjournment debate where she was making the case for how and why access to on-the-job training should be improved.

Ms Baillie said: "Snobbery about additional training and no diploma sadly continues to at the present time. You simply have to take a look at Carol Vorderman's assault on (Johnny Mercer) and his spouse."

After referencing Ms Vorderman's tweet about their education, she said: "This is the most recent instance of nonsense.

"Dismissing a minister who works tirelessly for the armed forces and veterans for not having gone to university is bad enough, but deliberately being condescending about the lives of millions of people who did not go to university is absolutely unforgivable.

"I used to admire Carol Vorderman an terrible lot earlier than she determined to eat a lot political hate for breakfast to get social media hits. Now, sadly, I simply really feel sorry for her."

Prior to the adjournment debate on Monday, Ms Vorderman tweeted that it was "a joke" to call her an education snob.

She said: "They cannot consider anything to have a go at.... However, I'll let my document in training do the speaking (together with) serving to 500,000 kids with their maths throughout lockdown...giving bursaries for younger folks and colleges with deprived backgrounds like mine....serving to Blunkett introduce the Numeracy Hour....governor of inner-city faculty......training books for many years.....recognised STEM Ambassador....I may go on.

"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. PS Tories....this attack won't work. It just makes us more determined."

The ongoing Twitter row has additionally seen Mr Mercer model Ms Vorderman as "grim" and a "deeply unpleasant person" after she seized on feedback he made that navy personnel shouldn't be utilizing foodbanks.