On X, formerly Twitter, SNP MP John Nicolson shared a letter he had written to Mr King following the meeting, asking him to back up this claim. The letter said: “At your appearance on 8th May ...

SNP MP John Nicholson said the post was “cringe”, while other parody accounts on the site mocked the MP. “I’m a Tory MP, of course I’ll be looking for a new job this year,” said one.

The meeting on Tuesday was only a few minutes old when John Nicolson, the MP for Ochil and South Perthshire, and the man who solemnly waved through Azeem Rafiq’s claim in 2021 that he lost his ...