AN MP has invited criticism after making a jibe about Chelmsley Wood in the House of Commons this afternoon.
Conservative backbencher Stewart Jackson (pictured, above) described the estate as "a brutalist horror" during a debate on whether or not to extend shop opening hours on Sunday.
His barbed remarks came after Meriden MP Caroline Spelman - who represents North Solihull - had suggested that the best way forward would be to only relax the current trading laws in tourist areas.
Mr Jackson told Mrs Spelman this approach wouldn't work because councils would have too much freedom to decide what qualified as a tourist area.
"People might come to Warwickshire, near her own constituency and visit Stratford [Upon-Avon] and yet she has Chelmsley Wood in her constituency which is, some might say, a brutalist horror which could be reclassified potentially as a tourist attraction."
Mrs Spelman, who was sitting nearby, was apparently unimpressed by the comments and appeared to say:"It's not a horror."
In the end the proposals to relax Sunday trading laws were defeated by 317 votes to 286.
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