A Greater Manchester MP had the House of Commons in stitches after quipping that DUP leader Arlene Foster ‘must be the most expensive right winger since Cristiano Ronaldo’.

Ashton-under-Lyne’s Angela Rayner was referring to the now-infamous £1bn deal Prime Minister Theresa May struck with the Irish Democratic Unionist Party to prop up the Conservatives after they failed to win an overall majority in last month’s General Election.

Speaking in Parliament, the Labour MP, who is also the shadow secretary of state for education, said: “The education secretary bid for extra money for schools this weekend, not at Cabinet but on the front page of the Torygraph, and no wonder when Arlene Foster gets £1bn – she must be the most expensive right winger since Cristiano Ronaldo.”

She also criticised Ms May for her absence in the chamber, saying: “Where is the Prime Minister? She is not running her party she is running away from her party.”

Ms Rayner was elected in the 2015 General Election and has also served as shadow minister for women and equalities, and shadow minister for work and pensions.

The Prime Minister has come under fire for striking a deal with the DUP, which is known for it’s right wing views and opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

She was further criticised this week for allegedly spending £20,000 on an RAF plane to fly Ms Foster home to Belfast, which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called ‘a shoddy bung’.