A new education minister appeared to give the middle finger to anti-Boris Johnson protesters as she entered Downing Street.

Andrea Jenkyns was filmed making the gesture with her hand as she walked through the black gates.

The MP for Morley and Outwood was appointed to the role of parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Education yesterday.

It was part of Johnson’s reshuffle after a mass exodus of ministers from his government forced him to announce his resignation as Tory leader.

The footage, shared on social media on Thursday evening, appears to have been taken shortly before Mr Johnson announced he was stepping down, prior to her appointment as a minister.

Ms Jenkyns was previously reported to have shouted back at protesters, with eyewitnesses claiming she said: ‘Those who laugh last, laugh loudest. Wait and see!’

Is it too much to ask in @BorisJohnson Britain that the new Education Minister set an example to our nations children and not show the general public her middle finger. pic.twitter.com/MHlkZvIIBL

In response to the new video, Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson tweeted: ‘Ministers aren’t expected to be perfect. But is it really too much to ask that they don’t treat the public like this?’

Ms Jenkyns was one of the MPs to show support for Mr Johnson outside No 10 on Thursday as he announced his resignation.

A timetable for the Conservative Party leadership contest is expected to be drawn up next week after the election to the executive of the backbench 1922 Committee.

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