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A government minister says Westminster is poised and ready to vote for Matt Hancock to be subjected to all of I’m A Celeb’s miseries.
Chris Heaton-Harris let slip that ‘quite a lot of people’ in the Commons and Lords have downloaded the programme’s app since their colleague signed up for the show.
The ex-health secretary had his first taste of a bushtucker trial last night and is the clear favourite to be nominated by the public to do more.
Viewers will be given the chance to choose which contestants should be put up for horrors like eating kangaroo testicles on live TV throughout the series.
Among those voting, according to the Northern Ireland secretary, will be people working in Westminster while the MP earns a reported £400,000 in Australia.
Appearing on Sky News, Mr Heaton-Harris – who professed not to have tuned in – was informed his ex-cabinet colleague ‘looked a bit of a burk yesterday’ and that it ‘does look as though he’s going to get a very hard time’.
The secretary of state for Northern Ireland said: ‘I know the format of the show and I do believe there’s quite a lot of people in a building not too far away from here, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, who’ve downloaded a certain app so they can vote.
‘I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.’
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Matt Hancock had a less than ideal start to his time in the jungle last night (Picture: ITV)
Pressed on whether that was true, Mr Heaton-Harris said ‘of course it is’.
He also joined other senior Tories in criticising Mr Hancock for appearing on the show in the middle of a parliamentary term.
The Conservative Party has withdrawn the whip, meaning the one-time leadership hopeful will now be forced to sit as an independent when he does eventually return to the Commons.
Mr Heaton-Harris added: ‘I read this morning about how I said what he wants to prove that all MPs are human and that is true – all MPs are human.
‘But I think we do that every day in our constituencies and what we do in parliament.’
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A government minister said the show’s app is suddenly very popular in the Commons and Lords since the MP entered the jungle.
