This comes a day after Johnson was slammed for his so-called apology
Jacob Rees-Mogg has insisted that people need to “get perspective” after Andrew Marr shared the heartbreaking tale of his father passing at the same time as the infamous Tory parties.
On LBC’s Tonight on Tuesday, mere hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed his fixed penalty notice, the 62-year-old broadcasting veteran said: “I buried my father on the week that one of those parties took place and it was a party.”
I work in palliative care. To tell a grieving relative to "get a sense of perspective” over obeying draconian Covid restrictions imposed on their own father’s funeral – as Jacob Rees-Mogg just did to @AndrewMarr9 on @lbc – is absolutely disgusting.https://t.co/IIqLRDoNhP
— Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) April 19, 2022
He continued: “He was an elder of the Church of Scotland – that church was locked and barred. We had a small gathering, most of the family weren’t there. The other parishioners he would have loved to be there weren’t allowed to be there because we followed the rules.
“And I felt intensely angry about that – and I do not regard this as fluff.”
'This is supremely arrogant Jacob!'
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting clashes with Jacob Rees-Mogg and said there is 'genuine fury' at the Brexit Opportunities Minister's language over partygate. @AndrewMarr9 | @wesstreeting | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg pic.twitter.com/kOac3itA0V
— LBC (@LBC) April 19, 2022
Brexit Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg ignored Marr’s new point, instead agreeing that closing churches was a “great mistake.”
“What is happening now two years on against what’s going on in Ukraine, what is going on with the cost of living crisis, one has to get a sense of perspective,” he added. “What is going on in Ukraine is fundamental to the security of the Western world. And you are comparing this to a fine issued for something that happened two years ago.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg: 'We have such regard for the rule of law in this country that even the head of government is accountable and has been fined. I think that just shows what a law-abiding country we are.'@AndrewMarr9 | @Jacob_Rees_Mogg pic.twitter.com/wsuUy8wntE
— LBC (@LBC) April 19, 2022
Marr responded: “I’m really sorry but thinking about what happened to my family, and I only use that because it happened to so many others up and down the country … we find, I would say, that word fluff quite offensive.”
'My right honourable friend couldn't have made a more humble apology.'
Boris Johnson is saluted by Tory MP Steve Baker, after apologising for breaking Covid lockdown rules. pic.twitter.com/4vtirb1GZD
— LBC (@LBC) April 19, 2022
Reacting to the inflammatory statements, one Twitter user wrote: “No sympathy. No empathy. No compassion.”
All the empathy of a block of concrete- – https://t.co/Sd4DhIVcDj
— BeachMoo (@JennoRon) April 20, 2022
“All the empathy of a block of concrete,” another echoed.
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