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'Total outrage!' Susanna Reid fumes at Jacob Rees-Mogg over 'trivial' Partygate claims
Susanna Reid has taken to Twitter to unleash her fury at the Minister of State, Jacob Rees-Mogg, following his comments about Downing Street's Partygate earlier today.Speaking at a fringe meeting at the Tory spring conference earlier, the Conservative MP for North East Somerset, 52, dismissed the Partygate scandal as "disproportionate fluff", sparking outrage on social media.In view of her 860,100 followers, the GMB host didn't attempt to mask her outrage over the MP's comments.Susanna wrote: "No, JRM."Being furious the Prime Minister may have broken the law by holding gatherings when people couldn’t visit loved ones - even when they were dying - is not 'fluff' 'trivial' and 'nonsense' and saying this is a total outrage," she ended her post.The star was responding to comments the Conservative MP had made at a Tory Spring Conference earlier today, while discussing the war in Ukraine.In the clip that Susanna reposted, Mr Rees-Mogg said: "But it's also a reminder that the world is serious and that there are serious things to be discussed and serious and difficult decisions for politicians to take."Whether this is about reopening and having licences for oil wells in the North Sea, or whether it is about getting away from the wokery that has beset huge sections of society," he said, before going off on a tangent."Nobody I know cares whether using the word, whatever it was, 'grip', is going to offend people, do they?"I don't suppose any of you do? I certainly don't," he added.The politician went on: "Because all that nonsense is shown for the trivial nature of it and that we are now looking at serious, difficult decisions having been -," before cutting himself off.He continued: "I'd say the same with Partygate, that all of