After leading the defence of Charlie Elphicke and Imran Ahmed Khan, last night it was Boris’s turn to be backed up by MP Adam Holloway. Shortly after the result, Holloway appeared on BBC Newsnight to bat for the PM. Standing in Central Lobby, iPad in-hand, Holloway accused the programme of mocking up Boris to “look like Hannibal Lecter“. He had a screenshot to ‘prove’ it…
“I think there is great damage to the reputation of politics and… it should also do great damage to organisations like the BBC. This programme I am on now was showing pictures of him looking like Hannibal Lecter at the beginning… you’ve got razor blades. I mean, does that guy look like someone who has been given a birthday cake, or someone who’s just been locked up for something at the Old Bailey? I mean this thing has been totally blown out of proportion, when actually we should be thanking this man.”
The accusation will remind all keen politicos of the equally absurd 2018 row when Corbynistas, not least Owen Jones, accused the BBC of Photoshopping Corbyn’s hat to look ‘more Soviet’. The Boris fightback starts here ladies and gentlemen…
House Magazine’s Select Committee Guide 2022 is a great coffee table read, though not if you happen to be Adam Holloway, the honourable member for Gravesham. Co-conspirators who flick to page 37 to read up on the Home Affairs Committee will notice Adam Holloway looks a bit different nowadays – in fact, he looks a lot like former MP and convicted sexual predator, Charlie Elphicke…
Elphicke was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault in 2019, and served a year in prison for his crimes. The image used in the magazine even appears to have come from Elphicke’s court hearing…
A spokesperson for The House tells Guido:
“We regret the production error in the print version of our select committee guide and have apologised to Mr Holloway.”
That’ll be a costly reprint…
Tory MP Adam Holloway has been more candid than most in his recruitment efforts for a new caseworker in his Westminster office…
“The office primarily deals with constituency casework and the role might not be suitable for candidates with their own political ambitions – we are not looking for a Tory boy/girl.”
Applications close on 6th December…
Tory MP Adam Holloway on how the refugee crisis has affected him:
“We have people in this country who have come here, have claimed asylum, and then they go back on holiday in the places where they claimed asylum from. I couldn’t have my hair cut the other day for that reason.”
