Watching the Prime Minister duck and dive questions about the privileges committee this morning, Eamonn Holmes hit out at the farcical charade of question avoidance.
Rishi Sunak, 43, faced questions from reporters after he accompanied Home Office and Metropolitan Police officers on an immigration raid in Harrow, northwest London.
However, there was clear dissonance between the answers reporters wanted and what Sunak wanted to talk about.
Holmes said: “I get fed up looking at it. Listening to it. Repeating stuff over again.”
So-presenter, Isabel Webster, reasoned: “This is pretty standard in the political pool isn’t?
“It’s just both of them not deviating from their job. The reporter was told go out and get a line on the infighting in the Tories.
“The Prime Minister was told or decided I’m going out on a raid and both of them were absolutely adamant.”
Holmes then turned on Rishi’s rummage through the dress up box, saying Sunak looking like he was “ready to kick down a few doors today” was pulling the wool over nobody’s eyes.
Holmes said: “It doesn’t make a difference to your perception of how we as a country are tackling illegal migration.
Rishi Sunak at the immigration raid in Harrow
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“Do you look and say the Prime Minister’s right on top of this. The fact that he’s all dressed up and got a stab jacket on… or is that a PR stunt gone wrong today.”
Speaking before the bombshell privileges committee report was released, Sunak explained that he could not comment on a report he had not seen.
The Prime Minister said: "It wouldn’t be right to comment on it in advance of it coming out and being published.”
He added: “These are matters for the House of Commons, and Parliament will deal with it in the way that it does.”
The committee released its 108-page report at around 9am.
The privileges committee recommended that Boris Johnson should have been suspended from the House of Commons for 90-days, and should not have access to a former member's pass.
Rishi Sunak interviewed by the press pack this morning
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The committee found that Johnson deliberately misled the House of Commons, deliberately misled the privileges committee, impugned the committee, undermined the democratic process of the House and was complicit in a campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee.
The former Prime Minister, who announced he would quit as the MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip last Friday, penned a 1,700-word response to the seven-member committee's report.
Johnson lamented the partygate probe as "absurd" and even "deranged".
The 58-year-old wrote: "This is rubbish. It is a lie. In order to reach this deranged conclusion, the committee is obliged to say a series of things that are patently absurd, or contradicted by the facts."
He added: "This report is a charade. I was wrong to believe in the committee or its good faith.
"The terrible truth is that it is not I who has twisted the truth to suit my purposes. It is Harriet Harman and her committee.
"This is a dreadful day for MPs and for democracy."