Reform UK mayor Andrea Jenkyns has slammed the after they commented on her career before politics, saying that referring to her as a "former Greggs worker" is "just bizarre". The comments come after the broadcaster was criticised for its description of Jenkyns following her election victory. Jenkyns has recently become 's first-ever mayor in Greater Lincolnshire, but her victory has been overshadowed after the BBC Politics account on X posted a tweet referring to her as "the former Greggs worker and Miss UK finalist". Andrea has since waded in on the conversation and spoken to host Camilla Tominey, who quizzed her on the tweet.

Camilla asked her, "Should I be referring to Andrea as a former Greggs worker? Oh, no. We're not the BBC here. What did you make of that?"

Jenkyns replied with: "I found it quite bizarre because I was just a Saturday kid when I was 16."

Camilla laughed: "I know. Well, it was quite a while ago. I thought we may as well refer to Kemi Badenoch as a former McDonald's worker. I mean, I once worked at Waitrose, would you believe, maybe that should be in my CV?"

Viewers at home highlighted why the BBC would comment on these aspects of Andrea's background rather than her political experience as a former Conservative MP.

Since the post, BBC has since updated the tweet with a new headline. One person replied on X, "What an appalling post, you should be ashamed and don't deserve to be a national broadcaster! You are not fit for purpose!"

A second person also commented, "Seems @JoshuaNevett needs to learn some manners and not be so patronising. Does he look down on decent, hard-working women who work at Greggs? And perhaps an apology to @andreajenkyns for being so rude and misogynistic - not a good trait."

Jenkyns secured a solid victory in the Lincolnshire mayoral race, gaining 104,133 votes. This put her around 40,000 ballots ahead of Conservative candidate Rob Waltham.