A TORY MP was slammed after laughing along to “homophobic remarks” made about arson attacks on the Prime Minister’s property.
Matt Vickers was taken to task by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy in the Commons over his appearance on Jeremy Kyle’s Talk TV show on Tuesday to discuss the conviction of two arsonists who targeted Keir Starmer and his family.
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, where Lammy was filling in for Starmer, Vickers asked about the Government’s economic record and blasted Labour for hikes to business rates and employers’ National Insurance contributions.
Lammy replied: “We’ve got the fastest-growing economy in the G7, borrowing is down and we just signed our fifth major trade deal.
“But I must say to this Tory deputy chairman, yesterday he was on television laughing and joking about the arson attack on the Prime Minister’s home. Laughing about a firebomb targeting the Prime Minister and his family.
“Not only that, he joined with promoting conspiracies about the attack and laughed to demeaning, homophobic remarks. He should be ashamed of himself, absolutely ashamed. My advice to him is to grow up and apologise and do considerably better.”
Vickers was seen laughing as Kyle asked him whether the attackers were “rent boys”, which it has been reported was a conspiracy theory put around to discredit the Prime Minister.
The senior MP also laughed as Kyle said: “It wasn’t his back door, it was his front door.”
Labour are now calling on the Tories to sack Vickers as their deputy chairman. Anna Turley, chair of the Labour Party, said: "Matt Vickers is not fit to be an MP and if Kemi Badenoch had an ounce of integrity or respect for the safety of those who seek to serve the public, she would do the right thing and sack him today.
“Just two days ago, Kemi Badenoch rightly called out the perpetrators of the vile attack against the Prime Minister. Some issues go beyond the rough and tumble of party politics. If she fails to act now, her words clearly will have meant nothing.”
The Conservative Party were approached for comment.
Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, were convicted by an Old Bailey jury on Tuesday of conspiracy to commit arson.
In May 2025, a Toyota once owned by Starmer was set alight in a street in north London and days later two homes were set on fire including one rented out to the PM’s sister-in-law, which he owned.
They were said to have been promised payment for the attacks by Russian-speaking Telegram user “El Money”.
