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Ann Widdecombe has branded the #MeToo movement "trivial whinging" in a savage rant where she told off This Morning presenter Holly WIlloughby for "interrupting."

The former Tory MP said she believes women have "already won" their fight for equality and now want things "tilted in their favour" with things such as quotas and all-women shortlists when voting in MPs.

But Ann was clearly not in the best mood as she savagely took down Holly Willoughby after suggesting she interrupted her during her long rant.

On #MeToo, Ann said: "I don’t actually think that it has achieved anything except in the serious cases where they did need support, and that's fine.

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"But it’s also given rise to a lot of very trivial whinging. Recently an academic doctor was complaining at an airport because rather than being referred to as Dr Smith it was Mrs Smith.

"Get a life, girls!"

Ann told Holly and co-host Phillip Schofield she believes things have got a lot better for women since the 1970s, but now women are trying to tip things in their favour.

She continued: "When I was a graduate in the 1907s, it was perfectly lawful for a employer to advertise a job with two rates of pay, one for women and one for men.

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"It was lawful to refuse a woman a property a mortgage, a finance agreement just because she was a woman… in the 90s that all changed and instead of being a level playing field, we want a tilted playing field towards us."

She added: "The whinging of the #MeToo movement, where a woman will say, 'Five years ago, a man put his arm round me and it made me uncomfortable.'

"The woman I’m sorry for are the women who want to be full time mothers, and they are heavily discriminated against in the tax system and by society in general about it being second class role."

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Ann said the pay gap is "largely a myth" based on women leaving work to have children or working part time, rather than this relating to any difference in actual pay.

She bemoaned a potential proposal to ban "wolf-whistling," admitting she quite enjoys it and accused women of "shouting discrimination whenever something goes wrong."

Ann added: "A serious proposal to make wolf whistling a crime. Have we gone absolutely mad?

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"And what that indicates is we have won, and instead of sitting back and saying, 'We’ve won, we’re going to build on that,' we’re saying, 'We mustn’t win, we must find more places of grievance.

"There is a cult of victimhood going on about very trivial things that don’t matter. Wolf whistling doesn’t matter, I quite like it actually.

"We’ve lost our humour, we’ve lost our cheeriness, we’ve lost our sense of proportion."

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As she was speaking, Holly tried to jump in and speak to her, but she accused her of "interrupting" and shouted her down, asking whether she intends to take over from John Humphrys who was "paid per interruption."

She ended with another flourish, as she suggested men are "wimps" who don't know what to do with themselves thanks to the way women act.

This Morning airs weekdays from 10.30am on ITV.