Paul O’Grady still feeling impact of Covid as he takes aim at ‘these two planks’ Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak: ‘I’d laugh if it didn’t send me off coughing’-Mel Evans-Entertainment – Metro

What does Paul O’Grady think of Truss and Sunak? (Picture: Brett Cove/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Paul O’Grady has some thoughts on the potential next leader of the Conservative Party and our next Prime Minister, and he’s not afraid to share them.

The TV presenter, who recently revealed he’d tested positive for Covid, appeared to suggest his symptoms weren’t as painful as his experience watching one of the recent debates between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

Sharing he was ‘still a bit done in from this bloody Covid although I’m no longer contagious and haven’t been for a few days’ Paul went on to add he was tuning into the Tory leadership debate alongside millions of others around the country.

Or, as he so eloquently put it, ‘two planks trying to persuade us why they’d make a wonderful Prime Minister’.

He wrote on Instagram on Tuesday: ‘Truss is banging on about Turbo Charged Toffee, am I hallucinating or what? Whilst the other one is insistent that we know he once had a Saturday job in a chemist.

‘To hear him you’d think he’d been forced to work down the mines since he was a child. What a carry on, I’d laugh if it didn’t send me off coughing so I’m making do with scornfully curled lip.’

Truss and Sunak went head to head in another debate (Picture: PA)

Paul wrote: ‘Once again, thanks for all your kind messages when I was away from home and feeling like I’d been dug up and belted with the shovel.’

Evidently Paul – who wrote several days ago he was positive for Covid after so-far being able to avoid it – was tuning into the debate before it was forced off air, after moderator Kate McCann collapsed at the podium.

The presenter fainted halfway through Truss and Sunak’s head-to-head on Tuesday night and was heard collapsing to the floor.

Foreign Secretary Truss was visibly shocked by the scenes at hand and held her hands to her face as she exclaimed ‘Oh my God’ and the debate was swiftly taken off-air.

TalkTV apologised to viewers for not resuming the programme, saying in a statement: ‘Kate McCann fainted on air tonight, and although she is fine, the medical advice was that we shouldn’t continue with the debate.

‘We apologise to our viewers and listeners.’

McCann, TalkTV’s political editor, was due to co-host The Sun’s Showdown: The Fight for No.10 alongside The Sun’s political editor Harry Cole, but he tested positive for Covid hours before the programme was due to air.

The former chancellor and Foreign Secretary both tweeted to wish the journalist well shortly after the interruption.

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Before the debate was taken off air, the two Tory rivals locked horns once again as they fought for the support of their party members, with taxes and the economy causing the most acrimony.

Ms Truss said it was ‘morally wrong’ to raise taxes during a cost-of-living crisis, but Mr Sunak quickly shot back, saying it was ‘morally wrong’ to heap more debt on future generations.

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