BBC host in stitches after Tory MP’s hilarious slip of the tongue ‘Think you mean Eustice’

In a discussion on BBC’s Today programme on the mixed messaging coming from ministers on the dangers of Britons travelling to ‘amber list’ countries, Tory MP Peter Bone made a hilarious slip of the tongue. The MP’s clanger came as he was referring to George Eustice’s comments on the Covid safety of Amber list countries which Bone disagreed with.

Mr Bone said: “I think we could be a little bit more ambitous with the green list.

“But we are moving in the right direction.”

Peter Bone was then asked about the mixed messaging from a number of ministers, including Lord Bethel and the Environment Secretary George Eustace on the safety of travel

The Tory MP said: “Well I thought Lord Bethels comments were wrong, just plain wrong. Anyone who knows anything about the travel industry, is that it goes out of its way

And in a hilairous slip of the tongue, Peter Bone said: “George useless I think was also not correct.”

But Martha Kearney interjected swiftly to correct the Tory’s slip of the tongue, saying: “George EUSTACE I think!

“I think you might have been using a bit of nickname!”

But Mr Bone insisted: “It is early in the morning, at least for me anyway!”

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