Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab faced backlash after winking at Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner during Prime Minister's Questions and criticising her for attending an opera.
Carol, 61, gave Mr Raab a piece of her mind in view of her 483,300 followers this afternoon.Taking to Twitter, she reshared an article describing the interaction between the Deputy Prime Minister, 48, and Angela Rayner, 42.Carol wrote: “Misogynistic snob winking at @AngelaRayner.“So working class people shouldn't be able to go to the opera @dominicraab? “I thought the days of ‘know your place you poor people/peasants’ were over. “Patently they aren't.
Could someone please make this stuff stop?”Mr Raab garnered criticism today after accusing Miss Rayner of “champagne socialism” for going to the opera during the rail strikes.The Cabinet Minister winked at Miss Rayner in the House of Common and was accused of sexism and snobbery.As the pair butted heads over the rail strikes, the Justice Secretary attacked the Labour frontbencher for visiting East Sussex's Glyndebourne opera house.After the session had concluded Miss Rayner offered a retort to Mr Raab's remarks.
She said: “My advice to the Deputy Prime Minister is to cut out the snobbery and brush up on his opera.“The Marriage of Figaro is the story of a working-class woman who gets the better of a privileged but dim-witted villain.”A spokesman for Boris Johnson also made it clear that the Prime Minister did not stand by Mr Raab's actions. “Everybody should be able to enjoy arts and culture and other such things across the UK,” the spokesman told reporters.People also took to the comments of Carol Vorderman’s post to weigh in on the controversial exchange, with many agreeing with the star's.
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