BBC staff slam Nadine Dorries after claiming it's full of 'people whose parents ...

An army of BBC employees has rubbished Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries' claim that the Corporation is full of people 'whose mums and dads work there' by revealing how their parents were nurses, joiners, squaddies, teachers and window cleaners. 

The anti-woke Cabinet Minister slammed the BBC during an event at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester this week, taking aim at its alleged nepotism and elitism - despite herself once employing her two daughters on her parliamentary staff. 

Speaking to the Telegraph's Chopper's Politics podcast, the Liverpudlian Bedfordshire MP even claimed that the Corporation wouldn't exist in ten years' time - a remark so incendiary that even Boris Johnson was forced to step in and effectively rein her in.  

Ms Dorries said the BBC's 'groupthink mentality' excluded minorities and people with regional accents, and demanded change at the organisation, saying its staff needed to reflect a wider demographic than just people 'whose mum and dads work there'.

But her comments sparked a furious blast from BBC staff including presenter Clive Myrie, who used the Twitter hashtag #mymum to collate examples of staff who didn't get jobs through their parents. 

'My mum was a seamstress, working for Mary Quant and Marks and Spencer. Umm, I wonder what the parents of other BBC employees did/do, while their progeny are employed by Aunty Beeb!' Mr Myrie tweeted.

Responding to his tweet, scores of BBC staff fired back at Ms Dorries. Radio Norfolk's Richard Hancock said: 'Dad a teacher, Mum a part-time bookkeeper until she became a single parent at which point she got a job at a building society & trained as an accountant to keep me in school (comprehensive) shoes.'

BBC World Service presenter Tamasin Ford tweeted: 'My mum (single parent) went back to school to do her A-Levels, then went on to Uni (and got a first!) while we were all teenagers and then worked as a carer in a care home, while trying to write and get a novel published in any spare time she had #mymum. I knew no-one at the BBC.' 

Reporter Phil Mackie said: 'Dad was a soldier, then worked as a journalist for local paper, then press officer. Mum was a children's social worker and then worked with the blind.'

Marianna Spring posted: 'My mum was a nurse for years - dad a window cleaner and park keeper, then worked for BT and did his a-levels in the evenings to go to medical school! First day there, another student said 'God they've let in a window cleaner who didn't finish school'. Dad came top of the year.'

Former Radio 4 presenter Neil Sleat added: '#mymum was a housewife, before that a bank clerk, and my father worked in the Ministry of Defence. I can't think of a single colleague whose parent worked for the BBC.'

Reporter Jonathan Josephs said: '#mymum was a primary school teacher, my dad a civil servant. We had no links to the media. Hard work got me into the BBC at a time where there weren't even any training schemes available. As the only kippah wearer in the newsroom I think its an incredibly diverse place to work.' 

And South Asia correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan posted: 'Both parents were immigrants to UK. Both suffered workplace racism. Dad was an academic with multiple degrees - worked in

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