Paul Waugh appear to have uncovered evidence of soon-to-be-ex-Tory MP David Wilshire having an Alan Duncan-style foot-in-mouth moment…

As if things weren’t bad enough already for David Wilshire, here comes what looks like more trouble.

A group of journalism students say that they interviewed him during a trip to Parliament this week – coincidentally just before yesterday’s Telegraph splash effectively did for his career.

The students say that Wilshire came up with the following quotes (which have a strange echo of Alan Duncan’s ‘rations’ complaint) during a mock press conference:

“I work 60-70 hours a week some weeks. When you look at what I earn over the year, it comes dangerously close to working out as the minimum wage”.

With many MPs feeling they have been unfairly treated by Sir Thomas Legg, he reportedly added:

“Is it fair to drive someone perilously close to a nervous breakdown or suicide over a packet of biscuits?…What’s happening at the moment is like being told your salary is £20,000 a year and you earn that much for five years.

“Then after that time someone says to you actually, sorry, we made a mistake, you’re not supposed to be on £20,000 you’re on £15,000 – so can you pay back the extra £5000 a year over the next five years. You’d be pretty annoyed wouldn’t you?”