Whether it’s blocking a bill banning upskirting – the practice of perverted men clandestinely taking photographs from beneath women’s skirts – on public transport or backing Kwasi Kwarteng’s catastrophic “mini-budget”, Sir Christopher Chope can be relied upon to take the wrong side of the argument.
Sure enough he had a go at my friend Sangita Myska on LBC the other day for being “a fully signed-up member of the anti-growth coalition” for having the temerity to see anything wrong with Kwarteng’s budget. The Christchurch MP said he hoped very much that Liz Truss’s government would soon be able to implement what was proposed in the mini-budget once the markets had calmed down a bit.
Chope is a reliable “rentagob” for any media organisation – an LBC insider says that of the scores of Tory MPs they called to defend the mini-budget and Liz Truss, he was the only one willing to go on air.
