A VIDEO clip of Layla Moran reacting to a Conservative MP defending the Prime Minister has gone viral.
Ms Moran, Oxford West and Abingdon’s Liberal Democrat MP, appeared on BBC Two’s Newsnight to talk about last night’s Brexit debate with the Conservatives' Bernard Jenkin, independent Antoinette Sandbach and Labour's Barry Gardiner.
During the debate, Boris Johnson was widely criticised by opposition MPs. He provoked their fury after dismissing warnings of threats against their lives as ‘humbug’.
Mr Johnson claimed that the best way to honour Labour MP Jo Cox would be to ‘get Brexit done’. Mrs Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist in June 2016 and was a Remain supporter.
Ms Moran gasped and put a hand to her mouth in shock after Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin defended Mr Johnson.
Newsnight’s host Emily Maitlis asked Mr Jenkin, a veteran Eurosceptic: “Female MP after female MP said the language that was used about surrendering and betrayal was making their lives unsafe – and that’s what he responds [with]? You must be ashamed of him?”
Mr Jenkin replied: “Well, I think, as I say, that everybody’s…think of the strain the Prime Minister is under, as much as anybody else in the House of Commons in these circumstances.”
Ms Moran replied: “I’m sorry Bernard but what you’ve just said has made me very upset. I actually think that you’re better than this and I think most parliamentarians are better than this and I would defend the vast majority of them.
"I don’t think Boris Johnson speaks for us and I don’t think he speaks for the vast majority of people in this country.
“We have absolutely called for him to resign, I think that is the right thing for him to do.”
She said the Liberal Democrats would not trigger a no confidence vote in the government because of the risk it would lead to a no deal Brexit.
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