'It's a big grown-up job' Anna Soubry mocks Boris Johnson during Last Leg TV appearance
ANNA SOUBRY tore into the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case as she appeared on The Last Leg.
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The Conservative MP who has been criticised for attempting to thwart the Brexit process took aim at Boris Johnson on TV.
Ms Soubry, who has claimed the Foreign Secretary should have been sacked “weeks ago” targeted him on Channel 4’s The Last Leg.
The Tory MP for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire also said she was “praying” that Mr Johnson would not become the next Prime Minister if Theresa May was to step down.
She said: “I think the thing that upset me about it was that he didn’t really say sorry when he had the opportunity in the House of Commons.
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“There was this weird way that he said, ‘my words may have been misconstrued’. Well which part of ‘she was training journalists’ do you misconstrued? That was not true.
“The woman was on holiday, that is the whole point of her case. That’s why she is being completely unlawfully, and wrongly she’s innocent.
“It’s really serious actually, I know we are having a lot of fun, that’s what’s upset people.
“He is our foreign secretary, that is why I also fell out with Boris, it’s a serious big grown-up job.
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He is our foreign secretary, that is why I also fell out with Boris, it’s a serious big grown-up job
“I thought when he was appointed it was his opportunity to show the could do it, and unfortunately I think he has been found wanting.”
Mr Johnson has been under pressure after Iranian television suggested the Foreign Secretary said jailed charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was “training journalists” in Iran, prompting fears her five-year prison sentence would be extended.
State television said it was an “unintended confession of a real plot” from Mr Johnson.
Speaking in the Commons this week following his remark, Mr Johnson said the UK Government "has no doubt that she was on holiday" in Iran and that was the sole purpose of her visit.
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He said: “My point was that I disagreed with the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime - not that I wanted to lend any credence to Iranian allegations that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been engaged in such activity.
“I accept that my remarks could have been clearer in that respect and I'm glad to provide this clarification.”
During her appearance on the Last Leg, Ms Soubry also said that Mrs May was “totally in control” of the UK and the Government.
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