'This is ridiculous': Tory chair Richard Holden refuses to answer selection questions

[coffeecupman]

If you respond to questions like a broken record like this, you have outed yourself. You are unfit for any form of public office. Stand down.

[Ritte]

This is what the death of the Tory party looks like 😂😂😂😂😂

[bryandavidson]

Corruption, arrogance and self-entitlement. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Tory manifesto.

[dismalfist]

Complete failure of a politician. Get these tories out.

[Gaza-vugl]

This is why many MPs are self minded. This guy has no morals and a coward jumping ship of his constituents

[diddybopper]

Please don’t tell me the Tories aren’t destroying themselves on purpose at this point. No way is this just incompetence. This is by design. Got to be.

[josephgunnett]

We don't want him, loyal to his bank account.Go away.

[hgmet]

It's like the last days of Rome in Tory party currently.

[GarethMachin-rbsg]

This is the tory MP who should be done for wasting police time when he reported Starmer. Slimy individual.

[chrismh]

Just like a criminal in custody
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Which is usually a sign of These frauds are running the country !

[jameshealey]

What a disgrace he is, the arrogance of self-entitlement. I hear the tory activists from his "new" seat are going to campaign and put all their efforts into the adjacent constituency and will not canvas or help Holden at all.

[andrewcooney]

What do you expect from the crooked tories, let's hope voters will sort out this guy double quick time and vote him out.

[NigelButton]

Please don't vote for him. Transparency and integrity??, no chance

[sharonharris]

Whoever was doing this interview was fabulous. I wish we had more reporters in the States like this who will give pushback and not allow the lies.

[GSOHJM]

How is this utter disrespect for the people not a breach of the ministerial code?

[martinclark]

How has he got the nerve? Voters of Basildon and Billericay - do you want to see this man as your MP?

[Spv]

Politics is about image as much as anything else. To reply with a slur against an opponent when you have a genuinely good question raised about your own conduct is the height of sleaze. Shame on him and anyone who votes for him

[lindamacro]

Who has this guy got a hold on...what does he know that the Cons party are bending over backwards to accommodate him? What possible trail of deceit might be found here?

[thereunionparty]

Oh my God! The answer to the question "Why were you parachuted in...?" does not begin with the words "Emily Thornberry"!

[stevenhunter]

Useless. Can't work without a script 🤠