Carol Vorderman has demanded Rishi Sunak be investigated for insider trading in a blistering attack on the Tory government today.
The 62-year-old star heavily criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and urged for more "accountability and transparency" within the government as she discussed the headlines on This Morning today with Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary.
She fumed there is a lack of "accountability and transparency" in the government after reports Sunak co-founded a hedge fund that had shares in Moderna, with him insisting he put his assets into a blind trust after the Department of Health allegedly spent £15 billion on unused PPE.
"Rishi Sunak, our prime minister, co-founded a hedge fund. It invested in the last few years 1 billion pounds in Moderna shares. Rishi Sunak said he has put all his assets into a blind trust," she said on the show today.
"He has refused to whether he holds assets in the hedge fund and therefore in Moderna. That man came out in front of 10 Downing Street and said accountability and transparency and all of this. If you are true to your word Rishi Sunak, do you own shares in Moderna because if you do, are we now talking about insider trading."
Mr Sunak has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons recently, including when he was seen not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car whilst filming a video. There have been multiple strikes, with more to come and up and down the country, people are begging for the government to step in and help the country get back on its feet.
It's not the only attack on the government, with Tory Sir Rod Stewart saying yesterday the country should give the Labour Party a go.
During his conversation on Sky News, Rod said: "I personally have been a Tory for a long time, but I think this Government should stand down now and give the Labour Party a go at it because this is heart-breaking for the nurses, it really is heart-breaking. In all my years of living in this country I’ve never seen it so bad and anything I can do to help. Go on, the nurses. I’m on your side."
It comes after Carol slammed the Tories as "morally corrupt" Tories and said she would only help Rishi Sunak with his maths policy if he publishes his tax return. Earlier this month, she hit out at the Prime Minister’s plan for all children and young people in England to learn maths until the age of 18, and the Countdown star saying that 'the system is not working for that'.
"People are coming out of the education system innumerate for a whole host of reasons," she told listeners on LBC, "I support teachers but in primary school, most teachers, almost all, gave up maths at 16 at GCSE level."
She added: "It’s a bit of an elephant in the room in education because they’re a bit fearful of teaching it."
