DUP MP criticised after calling Stormont health minister ‘a poodle’

Stormont Health Minister Robin Swann (left) and DUP MP Sammy Wilson (PA)

A DUP MP has been criticised after claiming the Stormont health minister is “acting like a poodle”.

Amid tensions between the DUP and other parties over the post-lockdown reopening of schools, Sammy Wilson accused Robin Swann of acting like a “poodle for the unaccountable chief medical officer”.