'How much is child allowance?' 'That I'm afraid I don't know.' 'Sorry, is your title not Minister for Children?' Minister for Children, David Johnston, admits he's not sure how much the child allowance is. Nick Ferrari is astonished.

@NickFerrariLBC The Tories continue to create Labour’s attack ads for them.

@NickFerrariLBC I bet he knows how much he can claim for toilet paper and parking fines, though.

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@NickFerrariLBC "I should have looked it up before I came on here?" Mate. You should know ALL this stuff as part of your remit. Reward every Tory with tactically voting the maximum number out: in England @theSNP in Scotland @Plaid_Cymru in Wales

@NickFerrariLBC He doesn't know the figure because he's never needed to know it. Never lived hand to mouth. Never had to count the tens of pounds, yet alone the pennies. We haven't all experienced poverty, but if we want to represent people, we should at least have knowledge of the basics.

@Meteor_FBPE @NickFerrariLBC At this stage, Ministers are just anyone who smiled at Sunak once, sitting behind a desk for a few months to get a lifelong extra Ministerial pension at our expense.

@NickFerrariLBC This is just typical of ministers - put into roles they don’t have any sort of background in prior then can’t be bothered to learn the basics. 🙄

@NickFerrariLBC Of course he doesn’t know. The Tories are only interested in cutting taxes for the old and wealthy.

@NickFerrariLBC Steady on. We can't expect a Minister for Children to known facts about children. That would be like expecting Johnson to read a briefing paper, Truss to understand economics or Sunak to hang about for a few hours on D-Day. Where will it end? It's a slippery slope.

@NickFerrariLBC Jesus wept.