Tory minister says MP who made election betting 'joke' has dry sense of humourSource: LBC
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00:00You say Alistair Jack, your colleague, is well known for having a sense of humour?
00:05I think Alistair has a very dry sense of humour.
00:08Right. Because he's saying that when he told a reporter from the BBC that he had placed a bet
00:14on one north of £2,000, he was pulling your leg, as in pulling the journalist's leg.
00:19Does that sound like laugh-along Alistair to you?
00:22No, I don't know. I wasn't there.
00:24Oh, J.P. Jack?
00:25Well, I wasn't there and I didn't hear the comments. I'm not really in a position to
00:30properly judge whether it was truly funny or not, or the context of it.
00:34But do you think that's funny? At the height of this scandal,
00:37the telejournalist, I've made two grand... I was only kidding.
00:41Well, look, I don't know the context in which those comments were made,
00:44and context does matter. I wasn't there and I didn't hear it.