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Education minister Andrea Jenkyns, who was appointed on Friday, described the group as 'a baying mob' who were 'insulting MPs'. | ITV National News.

I should have shown more composure but am only human.” Just why should anyone have to put up with this sort of treatment. But I don’t think that was the right thing to do at all.”

Andrea Jenkyns, a staunch ally of Boris Johnson, made the gesture towards a group of people gathered at the gates of Downing Street as the PM made his ...

Leaving Downing Street after the speech, she was heard to berate those gathered at the gates, shouting "he who laughs last laughs loudest. "Two of which have been in recent weeks and are currently being investigated by the police, I had reached the end of my tether. "But I don't think that was the right thing to do at all." She said she stood up for herself after being subject to "huge amounts of abuse" over the years, including two death threats in recent weeks. Today she said in a statement: "I had reached the end of my tether". Branding the group - a combination of tourists and protesters - a "baying mob", she said she had made the gesture after coming to the "end of my tether."

A new education minister appeared to give the middle finger to anti-Boris Johnson protesters as she entered Downing Street. Andrea Jenkyns was filmed making ...

But I don’t think that was the right thing to do at all.’ He told BBC Breakfast: ‘I don’t seek to condone that at all. But is it really too much to ask that they don’t treat the public like this?’ justify that for herself. Commons Leader Mark Spencer had said it was up to Ms Jenkyns to ‘justify’ her actions after she was caught on camera making the gesture. The MP for Morley and Outwood was appointed to the role of parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Education yesterday.

Commons Leader Mark Spencer has said it is up to Andrea Jenkyns to "justify" her actions after she was caught on camera appearing to make a rude gesture ...

An education sector leader has written to the government over the behaviour of a new education minister caught on camera swearing at protesters.

But I don’t think that was the right thing to do at all.” Jenkyns said this meant she ”had reached the end of my tether. She said people there had directed “huge amounts of abuse” at her over the past years. “But to proceed with a ministerial appointment of someone who is unable to abide by the principles of public life is sinking to a new low.” They state that holders of public office should “exhibit these principles in their own behaviour and treat others with respect”. Today, Dame Alison Peacock, the chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, revealed she had written to the DfE to “remind education ministers” of the Nolan Principles, or seven principles of public life.

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But I don't think that was the right thing to do at all." I don't seek to condone that at all. "I responded and stood up for myself.