Ann Widdecombe – 2022 Comments on Matt Hancock Going on I’m a Celebrity

The comments made by Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative Prisons Minister, on Sky News on 1 November 2022.

The fact is that he will say that he’s got people working for him in his office and so he’s still supplying the same service. So I think that’s rather a difficult question. As far as I’m concerned, no serving MP should disappear onto a reality programme, whether it’s Big Brother, Strictly or the Jungle for weeks on end, which is what it is unless of course he gets kicked out early. That’s what it is, weeks on end just disappear and who will pick up your work? Does he have an arrangement with a neighbouring constituency MP, for example, which is what you would do if you were ill or some other real necessity took you away? Who’s going to do it? What happens if there’s an emergency in his constituency tomorrow morning?