WEST Somerset and Wellington hinterland MP Rachel Gilmour has been publicly rebuked by the Speaker of the House of Commons for ‘playing politics’ rather than posing a constructive question.

Mrs Gilmour was interrupted and told to sit down by the Speaker on Monday (November 4) during debate on last week’s Budget.

The Speaker had interrupted Liberal Democrat Mrs Gilmour, asked her to sit down, and called out her behaviour as inappropriate for the occasion.

Conservative Rural Forum South West chairman James Wright has posted an unedited clip of the incident on X (formerly Twitter).

Mr Wright said: “Being publicly rebuked by the Speaker is bad enough, but trying to cover it up is a betrayal of trust.”

In the clip, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, can be seen and heard telling Mrs Gilmour: “Order, no, sit down, please, the question was long enough, I do not need to then start playing the politics.”

Mrs Gilmour told the Free Press: “I will continue to passionately stand up for family farms and push the Government to deliver a fair deal for rural communities, after they faced years of neglect under the Conservatives.

"I have taken on board comments from the Speaker about the length of my question."