Don’t mess with Mrs Mercer! Meet the wife of ex-veterans minister who called Liz Truss an IMBECILE, revealed husband Jonny was ‘too p****d to remember talking to Boris Johnson’ after watching the rugby – and shares some VERY revealing photos of him online
- The wife of sacked vets minister Johnny Mercer branded Liz Truss an ‘imbecile’
- Felicity Cornelius-Mercer said the Cabinet system ‘treats people appallingly’
- Last night her husband was removed as veterans affairs minister by Ms Truss
- The qualified lifeguard has staunchly defended her partner on social media
- Been mired in controversy before after tweeting about his drunken escapades
The outspoken wife of a former minister who last night blasted Liz Truss in a furious Twitter outburst shares half-naked pictures of her husband online and once revealed he had been drunk while speaking with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer, 42, compared the new Tory leader to Beaker from the Muppets as she described her as an ‘imbecile’ for sacking her husband, ex-Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer MP.
She said the system ‘stinks’ and ‘treats people appallingly’ after her husband was booted out of the cabinet after less than two months in the role he helped set up.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer has served as a part-time constituency aide for her Afghanistan War veteran husband since 2015. Last year, the Plymouth Moor View MP claimed almost £170,000 in staffing costs.
She is also listed as a director, alongside her husband, at the couple’s Mercer Consulting Associates service, and spent two years as a director for the national charity, Trevi Women.
The couple have also hit the headlines in the past, most famously when Mr Mercer went viral after he bizarrely accused a Twitter user of insinuating his wife was a prostitute in comments shared to a local newspaper.
Earlier this year she faced criticism for tweeting about her husband’s drunken escapades: ‘So… funny story… the Prime Minister rang tonight directly after an afternoon of FA Cup football and England rugby… and Johnny was so p***** he can’t remember what was said’.
Her Twitter feed has divided opinion, with some supporters praising her openness and honesty as the wife of an MP, while others have criticised the content she shares – which includes topless images of her husband and others with him donning lycra.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer has called new Prime Minister Liz Truss an ‘imbecile’ in a tweet
Mrs Mercer wife last night tweeted a picture mocking Ms Truss as Beaker, a character from The Muppets television show and giving an account of Mr Mercer’s exit discussions
Mrs Cornelius-Mercer posted this picture of her ‘drunk’ husband asleep on the sofa in February after the defeats of his local team Plymouth Argyle to Chelsea in the FA Cup, and England to Scotland in the Six Nations rugby
Mr Mercer, the Plymouth Moor View MP, had also appeared angry about Ms Truss’s move, saying he was ‘disappointed’ but accepted the new PM is ‘entitled to reward her supporters’
It comes as the self-professed ‘bitter’ mother-of-three last night launched a Twitter tirade against new Prime Minister Liz Truss as she branded her an ‘imbecile’ for sacking her husband.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer tweeted a picture mocking Ms Truss as Beaker, a character from The Muppets television show and giving an account of Mr Mercer’s exit discussions.
She tweeted: ‘He asked her ‘why would you do this, who is going to be better at this role than me, which of your mates gets the job, you promised a meritocracy?’
‘PM – I can’t answer that Johnny.
‘This system stinks & treats people appallingly. Best person I know sacked by an imbecile @trussliz.’
She added in a follow-up Tweet, ‘Yes I am feeling bitter. Please allow it – 24hrs then back to positives’.
Earlier in the week, she had hinted at her husband’s fate after tweeting that he was ‘waiting for the axe to fall’ five days earlier.
She wrote in a cryptic post shared online: ‘Politics is many things that never get easier; including the uncertainty of constant change that affects us all.
‘All the hard fought gains seem very fragile and solutions to outstanding issues get further away.’
Former army veteran and Conservative MP Johnny Mercer was met with ridicule after a bizarre tweet about his wife and a local newspaper comment section went viral in 2018.
Mr Mercer, who had appeared on Channel 4’s Celebrity Hunted, was contacted by a Twitter user who asked him when the programme aired.
But the Plymouth Moor View politician, who rose to the rank of captain and carried out three tours of Afghanistan, gathered a lot of attention for his strange reply on social media.
Writing back on Twitter, he asked: ‘I’ll give you once chance at honesty. Did you insinuate my wife was a prostitute on the Plymouth Herald’s comment section?’
Before being deleted the tweet was shared more than 1,000 times and sparked a mass of memes mocking the message.
Before heading up her husband’s parliamentary office, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer worked as a supervisor at MK Airlines – a Ghanaian freight transport service that had its headquarters in East Sussex before going bust in 2010.
The mother-of-three completed her training and became a qualified lifeguard earlier this year after setting herself the goal as part of her 2022 New Year’s resolutions.
She said the qualification was ‘validation that your hard work has paid off’, and shared her delight at her ‘sense of achievement’.
Earlier this year, she revealed her spouse had been so ‘p****d’ during a phone call with the then-PM Boris Johnson that he couldn’t remember their conversation the next day.
The MP for Plymouth Moor View defended his wife after she was blasted for posting the tweet.
‘She’s on this nuts journey with me – the highs and many lows. She is more than entitled to take the p*** out of me/the PM/whoever she likes,’ he wrote online.
In 2020, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer revealed how her husband was branded a ‘child killer’ and the couple were sent a dirty nappy in the post over his opposition to free school meals.
Mr Mercer was among the Tory MPs who voted down a Labour motion to extend free school meals, inspired by campaigning footballer Marcus Rashford.
The mother-of-three said they had received death threats and abusive messages at the family’s home near Launceston, Cornwall.
The former solider’s partner says she felt ‘dirty’ after receiving the horrible package.
‘I went to wash my hands and I couldn’t stop washing them because I just felt really dirty.
‘I didn’t want to pick up the baby because I felt really unpleasant experience and the fact someone has sent it to our home address.’
The incident sparked fresh concern over the safety of MPs and their families – which has also prompted the Mercers to keep their children from attending local schools.
She’s also no stranger to controversy herself, having been indirectly embroiled in a bizarre Twitter feud after her husband alleged a stranger insinuated she was a ‘prostitute’ in a local newspaper’s comment section.
Mr Mercer asked a Twitter user: ‘I’ll give you one chance at honesty. Did you insinuate my wife was a prostitute on the Plymouth Herald’s comment section?’
His odd line of questioning was met with immediate ridicule and saw social media flooded with memes and saw the Plymouth Herald trend online.
And in 2019, his wife faced a barrage of criticism for her comments on feminism in which she railed against all-women shortlists, ‘anti-men narratives’ and said that she did not believe ‘that being female puts me at a disadvantage’.
She told The Londoner that year: ‘Everybody has a slightly different idea of what “feminist” means. It’s every man’s and every woman’s right to decide’.
Johnny Mercer, pictured with his wife Felicity, was removed as veterans affairs minister
Johnny Mercer and his wife, Felicity Cornelius-Mercer are pictured together
In 2020, a mysterious package which was addressed to the MP’s wife Felicity Cornelius-Mercer was sent via one day ‘special delivery’ to the couple’s Cornwall home
The nappy, which was sent in a tracked parcel that had a note reading: ‘Better check and see what your husband has been up to’, appeared to be covered in a brown excrement-coloured substance
Last night saw the latest in a series of Twitter controversies from the Mercers.
In 2018, the former army veteran was met with ridicule after a bizarre tweet about comments in a local newspaper regarding his wife.
It comes as Ms Truss took brutal revenge on Team Rishi by axing a trio of his biggest supporters in the opening moves of her first Cabinet reshuffle.
Dominic Raab was among the first to reveal his fate as he tweeted that he had been evicted from his roles as justice secretary and Deputy PM – with Ms Truss’s ‘best friend’ Therese Coffey confirmed as taking the latter title along with the health brief.
A slew of sackings followed, with a handful of heavyweights now resigned to the backbench, including Grant Shapps, Steve Barclay and George Eustice, the former of whom vowed to become a ‘strong, independent voice’, in what some considered thinly-veiled warning to the new PM.
They will join other heavy hitters, including Rishi himself, Sajid Javid and Michael Gove, representing a formidable and influential group who could cause trouble for Ms Truss in the coming weeks and months.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former party leader, will also join the backbench after he was reportedly asked to join the Cabinet but turned it down.
The newly-installed PM took to a podium outside the famous black door after returning to London from the Queen ‘s Balmoral residence in Scotland – where the transfer of power happened
Despite pleas to bring the Tories together, a host of other supporters of the former Chancellor paid the price. Mr Shapps, Mr Barclay, Mr Eustice and Shailesh Vara have been ditched as transport secretary, health secretary, environment secretary and Northern Ireland secretary respectively.
Tory chairman Andrew Stephenson and levelling up secretary Greg Clark, who all stayed neutral, also declared they were leaving their posts.
Nadhim Zahawi, who ran to be leader before supporting Truss, was sacked as chancellor but remains in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Equalities Minister, while Alok Sharma was re-appointed as Cop26 president.
And Penny Mordaunt, who came close to blocking Ms Truss’s run for power, becomes Leader of the Commons.
Liz Truss’s Cabinet reshuffle so far
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Kwasi Kwarteng – Chancellor
Therese Coffey – Health Secretary/Deputy Prime Minister
Suella Braverman – Home Secretary
James Cleverly – Foreign Secretary
Brandon Lewis – Justice Secretary
Ben Wallace – Defence Secretary
Nadhim Zahawi – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster / Equalities Minister
Penny Mordaunt – Leader of the Commons
Jacob Rees Mogg – Business Secretary
Simon Clarke – Levelling Up Secretary
Kemi Badenoch – International Trade Secretary
Chloe Smith – Work and Pensions Secretary
Kit Malthouse – Education Secretary
Chris Heaton-Harris – Northern Ireland Secretary
Alister Jack – Scotland Secretary
Robert Buckland – Wales Secretary
Michael Ellis QC – Attorney General
Tom Tugendhat – Security minister at Home Office (will attend Cabinet)
Vicki Ford – Development Minister at Foreign Office (will attend Cabinet)
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Dominic Raab
Grant Shapps
Steve Barclay
Andrew Stephenson
Greg Clark
George Eustice
Shailesh Vara
Johnny Mercer
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