By Lucy Caulkett-
A Conservative council leader has attacked Norfolk Mp’s in a radio interview against MPs in Norfolk, as he demanded they “up their game”.
Cliff Jordan, of Norfolk County Council, said he was “hacked-off” with some MPs “talking the county down”. The county has seven Conservative MPs, one Labour and one Liberal Democrat.
In a BBC Radio Norfolk interview, Mr. Jordan said: “Our MPs cost us a lot of money and they need to earn their corn.” He accused them of “knocking Norfolk for too long”.
He said he had only met Conservative party chairman and Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis once. He described Ms. Smith as “very good” but “very difficult to get hold of”.
“[She’s] a very busy lady so I set her to one side,” Mr. Jordan said.
He praised Mid Norfolk Conservative MP George Freeman, whom he lauded a “brilliant” and “top of his game”.
Complementing Mr. Freeman’s fellow Conservatives, Keith Simpson (Broadland) and Sir Henry Bellingham, he said the other MPs are “also-rans” and “might as well not be there”, he said.
He berated Elizabeth Truss of South West Norfolk, saying: “I’m just charred off with the way she runs Norfolk down.”
Jordan highlighted one Liberal Democrat MP former health minister, Norman Lamb, whom Mr Jordan said: “criticizes incessantly”.
