MEP Glenis Willmott has branded fellow MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk "an absolute disgrace" for taking part in this years I’m A Celebrity series.

Kilroy-Silk is currently an Independent MEP for the East Midlands in the European Parliament.

"I think it shows a complete lack of respect for voters," Labour MEP Glenis Willmott told The Mirror. "We are in serious times and people expect their politicians to do a job of work.

"You can’t do that if you are in the jungle, covered in cockroaches, eating kangaroos’ testicles, and swimming with crocodiles. I think it is an absolute disgrace."

Conservative MEP Roger Helmer was less critical of Kilroy saying: "It won’t make that much difference because he does so little work anyway.

"Frankly if he was working his socks off I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But he has given up on the job."