Andrea Jenkins was unwelcome outside Number 10 during Johnson’s resignation speech as she showed her support for the prime minister by wearing a neon dress.
As the Morley and Outwood MP made her way to Downing Street to see Johnson speak, she made no secret of her opinion of the team running the Prime Minister out of the gates.
Andrea Jenkyns, a Johnson loyalist, shouts to the cheering crowds:
“He who laughs last, laughs the loudest. Wait and see!”
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Several people had gathered to boo, shout and sing ‘Bye Bye Boris’ as he confirmed his intention to leave Number 10 by the autumn.
Jenkins appeared to tell the crowd: “Those who laugh last laugh the loudest.”
The deputy chair of the European Research Group then gave the group the middle finger before going through the security gates.
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The Johnson loyalist will now serve as undersecretary of state in the Department of Education.
Labour’s Bridget Phillipson tweeted: “Ministers aren’t expected to be perfect. But is it really too much to ask that they don’t treat the public like this?”
Jenkins is not the only Johnson loyalist to be added to his cabinet, as he plans to remain in place as caretaker prime minister for many more months.
Peter Bown, a long-serving Tory MP who called the idea of same-sex marriage “absolutely crazy”, has been appointed deputy leader of the House serving under Mark Spencer.
Pete Wishart, the SNP’s shadow leader of the House, told The National: “I knew he would fill his cabinet with weirdos and weirdos, but he’s quite extraordinary.”
He called the dates a “desperate last-ditch effort to keep the show on the road.”
