The new leader of the House of Commons, Mark Spencer, doesn’t have a clue about the ‘real world’

As I door-knocked in Birmingham last week, I asked how people felt that the government was performing, writes Jess Phillips. I have rarely heard as many expletives

Mark Spencer has moved from government chief whip to leader of the House of Commons (PA Wire)

I have recently noticed that Tory MPs and government ministers, in a bid to get out of answering difficult questions about the dreadful behaviour of their leader, have decided to pretend they know what people in the real world care about.

We hear drivel from talking heads about how no one is talking about the many lockdown-breaking parties (literally everyone is talking about it) or that real people are more concerned with Ukraine and the cost of living. This week, Mark Spencer moved from being the government chief whip to being the leader of the House of Commons in what seems like the dullest, most male, pale and stale reshuffle in history. He said that people in the “real world” didn’t care about Boris Johnson’s partying.

But if you look at polling on the matter of the parties, you would know that people in the “real world” very much do care about being lied to, being taken for fools and being asked to live by rules that our prime minister thought himself above, while they missed their families and lost loved ones.